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Subject: [expert] Static IP trouble
> Dear Mandrake tech support,
>
> I've encountered a very strange problem with my Mandrake system -- I'm
> using a 3com 3c595 ethernet card that worked fine under NT, and as long
> as I keep mandrake under DHCP it handles all port 80 functions fine, but
> as soon as I assign a static IP it can't even ping another system on the
> same subnet. (It does get a 127.0.0.1 ping though) I didn't change any
> of the routing or DNS specifications, or any of the subnet masks or
> anything -- the instant I set it back to DHCP it works, and when I go
> back to static it doesn't. I'm sure that it's not a bad IP address.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
When you use DHCP, the DHCP server tells your system what to use as the
default gateway. When you turn off DHCP, did you check to make sure that the
gateway was set?
Gary Wilson
