Have been working on this same problem and just solved
it.
My configuration is a firewall on a 486 using
CoyoteLinux, 2 Mandrake 7.2 boxes and a Win95 box.
Had not tried the ifconfig command until I read this
email and here are the results:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:B
8:75:10
inet addr:192.168.0.101 Bcast:192.168.0.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:352032 errors:43013 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:64474
TX packets:10303 errors:3 dropped:0 overuns:0:
carrier:3
collisions:31 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000
Most of this I do not understand. What caused the
ping failure, though, was I had been pinging an IP
address assigned in LinuxConf (192.168.0.4).
Apparently, the firewall mapped the NIC's otherwise.
In any event, pinging the 2 linux boxes with the
correct IP from either linux box or the Win95 box gets
a response.
Note the difference in Bcast IP and Mask from the IP's
quoted below.
And now, for the really good news!
Win98 is installed thru VMware on one of the Linux
boxes. It pings out to everything on the network and
it responds to pings from anywhere on the network.
Hope this helps.
-bill
--- "Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD(HA)/TMA"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When the dual boot machine is up under Linux
> Mandrake I still do not have
> these two even pinging each other. The ping of each
> other IP addresses
> simply hangs with out even timing out.
>
> Below is some more information if someone would have
> mercy on me. I would be
> grateful for any suggestions.
>
> P.S. When both machine are booted into WIN98 they
> communicate just fine,
> mapping shares, pinging each other, etc. Also I have
> the ppp0 interface
> working now on Linux.
>
>
--------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Result of ifconfig eth0:
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
> 00:01:03:31:E7:29
> inet addr:169.254.221.10
> Bcast:169.254.255.255
> Mask:255.255.0.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
> Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
> TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:1
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:184 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:184 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> Result of route:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask
> Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U
> 0 0 0
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U
> 0 0 0
> lo
>
> Content of ifcfg-eth0:
> DEVICE="eth0"
> BOOTPROTO="none"
> IPADDR="169.254.221.10"
> NETMASK="255.255.0.0"
> NETWORK=169.254.0.0
> BROADCAST=169.254.255.255
> ONBOOT="yes"
> IPXNETNUM_802_2=""
> IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no"
> IPXACTIVE_802_2="no"
> IPXNETNUM_802_3=""
> IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no"
> IPXACTIVE_802_3="no"
> IPXNETNUM_ETHERII=""
> IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no"
> IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no"
> IPXNETNUM_SNAP=""
> IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no"
> IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no"
>
> Result of if-up eth0:
> SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
>
> IP Addresses for computers when booted as WIN98:
> 169.254.126.195 WIN98 only computer
> 169.254.221.10 dual boot computer
>
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