On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 18:54, Brett W Tippet wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > Yeh ... done that ... > > It's going into a cisco catalyst 2900XL and I've tried a few patch cables > which work straight away when plugged into another PC .. the machine that > isn't working is lighting up on the switch. > > I have 3 LAN cards with the same chipset ... all do the same thing ... it's > like some odd routing restriction is in place? .. no firewall is enabled or > anything. > > Brett. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kwan Lowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:06 AM > Subject: Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan > > > > > > > When I apply this IP using the wizard on install it all takes and seems > to > > > be there .. If I try and ping anything on the LAN I get destination > > > unreachable, and if I ping the unit from another machine on the LAN it > > > times out. But from the 9.1 machine, I can ping 192.168.0.200 (it's NIC > > > ip) .. the routing table sees the ip, but wont look at the gateway or > LAN. > > > . > > > > Sounds suspiciously like a bad cable/connection. Can you try switching the > > cable to a known-good and plugging into a know-good port on the hub or > > switch?
RedHat does this to me a lot. Seems that a copy of the the ifcfg-eth0 file gets copied over into /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles or devices. Then the box gets confused trying to read both of them and the route never gets read right. James
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