> BTW, where did you get your other "default gateway" id (66.31.248.1) ?
I've got another machine running RedHat (this one). I had figured that sice we really had no idea what was going on with the mac, it might prove wiser to use a valid address. In hindsight though, that doesnt really sound too plausable. > > > My feeling over this is that your DHCP did not perform the initialisation > correctly, perhaps even not at all. Seeing the number of errors for > received packets might also indicate a malfunction of your Ethernet > board, but you said that it worked perfectly with MacOs 9 so that would > be ruled out. > > > 2) or, you can reboot with Mac OS 9, go to the TCP/IP Control Panel, note > down all the relevant parameters, and then kinda quickly (meanning : > before the 12 strokes of midnight - and that's probably serious) reboot > into Linux and insert the parameters into the routing tables - most > importantly of course the id of your machine, of the gateway and of the > subnet mask. Note that the gateway may be displayed under MacOs as a "router". > > I think the second way may be easier. > Ill give it a shot now, hopefull to post some good news later tonight. > > > I do hope I didn't get too boring :-) > Not at all, i'd be reading into this stuff problem or not :-) Again, thanks for sticking with the thread, i appreciate it ! -Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
