On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Bhavesh Kamani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi Team, > > I want to test ethernet driver for NIC, I have only one PC with two > different NICs(for both drivers are different), So I disabled loopback and > connected both the NICs using cross cable. Output of "ifconfig" is > displaying both the interfaces and ip address is also set for both the > interfaces. > I executed following to set ip address : > #ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 > #ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 > #ifconfig lo down > > After that I tried to execute following commands, > #route add -net 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.5 dev > eth0 > #route add -net 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.0.1 dev > eth1 > but those comands are giving error like : > " route: netmask doesn't match route address" > > I also put "1" in ip_forward file. > > I am not able to ping anyone of those interfaces using ping command. > > Can anyone give some inputs on this? > > Thanks, > Bhavesh. > > > use netmask as 255.255.255.254 at both place. -- Dinesh Bansal The Law of Win says, "Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way."
