Good Evening.
I've been trying to setup a Ethernet Network for the last Month and am having a
bit of rather strange trouble.
The Basics:
I'm not new to either Ethernet nor TCP/IP (I was the Team lead of a 18,750
Node M$ Network, in addition to prior experience so before sending me off to
RTFM (which I've done) read the whole problem), however this is my first full
blown Linux Ethernet Network. I've read (and understand) all the How-to's
(net3,Ethernet, etc)
I have a basic Network, running TCP/IP (IPv4) only on a group of Linux
(Mandrake 6.1) boxes. Below is the config I'm attempting to use (Pulled from
the one of the boxes's /etc/sysconfig/network file and Linuxconf)
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=yes
HOSTNAME= (boxname).saiorse.net (ie victory.saiorse.net)
DOMAINNAME=saiorse.net
GATEWAY=192.168.1.254
GATEWAYDEV=eth0
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast:192.168.1.255
eth0 is one of 2 different cards, either a Kingston KNE30BT or a 3COM 905B,
the cards are setup properly (detected, driver installed and network tested
using a much abused "crossover cable")(the KNE30BT's are Realtek 8029 based PCI
cards, that are NE2K compat) (there are 2 different cards used in the network
because some of the PC's are 486's with no PCI bus)
The network is running on 10BaseT (Cat 5, with all cables tested, and verified,
cables are between 5 Feet and 11 Feet in length) using CT1008D (Ark PALM
series) Hubs
The Issue:
No machine can see any other machine (no ping, Traceroute shows no route to
host) I've broken it down to 2 boxes to try and find my error. I can
communicate using a "crossover" cable, but once I put a hub between them (I've
replaced the hub with a known good, still nada, the hub is seeing activity but
the boxes refuse to see one another). The boxes can see themselves (ie ping of
localhost or the localip works fine) but nothing else. I've had conflicting
information that perhaps a "route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0"
would work (tried it, no luck)
Any guesses, hints, suggestions as to what in heck I've got set wrong. I've
never had this much trouble just getting a network talking.
PS: while I'm on the subject of begging for help, Anyone know where I can find
a patch to fix the issue of Adaptec 1542CF cards with the 2.2.13 kernel?
(the 1542CF gets " kernel: Wrong buffer length supplied for request sense
(256)" messages after being for for a few days or running a few backup's, the
error has been documented on a few listserv's and message boards).
Christopher C. Pitts
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"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil,then their good
becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."
--Christopher Dawson
