I have added Ethernet cards to two machines, one my Linux box, the other my partner's Win'95 machine. To reduce the configuration problems, I installed Debian on the second drive of my partner's machine, reducing the problem to two Linux machines connected through the same hardware.
Machine one is 10.1.1.10 and machine two is 10.1.1.20. >From either machine I can ping that machine but not the other one. Both cards seem to be working, but I have no network connection. I set them both up with ifconfig and route add, and when I do an ifconfig, I get the following: 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:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:DE:C8:16 inet addr:10.1.1.10 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 The only thing that looks strange here is the Bcast: and Mask:, but I didn't set them. It isn't clear that this is the failure either. I'm pretty ignorant about this stuff, but I think I did everything I need to have a LAN but it doesn't work. Any ideas? All informative flames appreciated ;-) Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_-