Christopher Quale wrote:
>
> Sorry to go off topic, but I greatly respect
> the general knowledge of this newsgroup.
>
> I have a 3com 3c589 pcmcia network card
> that has recently been acting really strange.
> I know that it is configured correctly
> (/etc/sysconfig/network and ifcfg-eth0, etc..)
> but here is the problem: it is assigned an
> internal IP of 192.168.1.5 and I can ping
> another computer such as 192.168.1.2 (as
> well as 192.168.1.5 and localhost), but
> as of yesterday (it was working fine before
> then) I cannot ping the IP Masq gateway
> 192.168.1.1 . The computer shuttles between
> two similarly configured networks (192.168.1.*
> addressing scheme with 192.168.1.1 as the
> ip masq gateway) and the exact same problem
> occurs. Also, this is happening in both
> linux and windows. The network is otherwise
> operating normal for other clients behind the
> IP masq machine. It appears, for some
> (hardware?) reason, that 192.168.1.1 is
> inaccessable to my NIC. Does anyone know
> what (if any) remedies there are for this?
> I have never come across something like this.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Best,
> Chris
Sounds like a netmask problem to me. Ensure it's set to 255.255.255.0.
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Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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