---- you wrote:
> Hi, Thank you guys for your help,
> I tried the commands suggested below and found out that I can actually ping machines
>on the same subnet.
> If my IP is: 1.1.20.30
> I can ping all machines on 1.1.20.*
> however I cannot do that with their hostnames unless I hardcode the min the
>/etc/hosts file. I guess my error has to do with the hostname resolving. I think here
>we have a class B address: 1.1.*.* and our mask is: 255.255.0.0
> What do I have to do to access the DNS Servers. I configured the machine in Yast to
>look at all three of them.
>
> Happy new year everybody,
> -t
>
>
> ---- you wrote:
> >
> > On 30-Dec-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Could someone help me out? I get a "network unreachable" whenever I try
> > > to connect on the network. I have a 3Com Etherlink card and I once had
> > > a network connection successfully connect to another computer but since
> > > my new installation I get this error.
> >
> > There are a lot of possibilities. Try the following checks:
> >
> > 1. Enter the command "ifconfig". As well as "lo" and "dummy0" you should
> > also see an "eth0". If you don't, then the ethernet driver was not
> > started up successfully for your card.
> >
> > 2. Enter the command "route". You should again see, under the last column
> > ("Iface"), "lo", "dummy0" and "eth0". If "eth0" is missing, then the
> > "route add ... " command failed on initialisation.
> >
> > 3. Try "ping localhost" and "ping nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn" where "nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn"
> > is the numeric IP address of the machine you are at.
> >
> > The above are basic tests that the local hardware and software are
> > working. If they pass, then have a look at the other machine. Is it, for
> > instance, on the same net (e.g. "192.168.0.0" or whatever the network IP
> > address is) as the local machine? If not, are the gateways OK? Etc.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Ted.
> >
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> > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 30-Dec-98 Time: 13:44:40
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