Ah, I forgot the Red Hat initrd doesn't include a ping command. At this point, though, I would suspect that if you try to ping the installation system from somewhere else, that it will likely respond.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Larry Heath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2 31-bit w/IBM LCS - another problem The LCS saga continues: ----------- Mark wrote -------------------- Again, for me the key to figuring things out is to do them manually so that responses to the commands are not hidden by the installation scripts. So, from your system console (HMC) try this: 1. ifconfig -a This command should show you your eth0 and lo devices. If not, the LCS module didn't load. 2. ifconfig eth0 205.213.113.123 netmask 255.255.255.0 up - This should result in no messages at all. If it does, report them back here. 3. route add default gw 205.213.113.254 netmask 0.0.0.0 - Again, this should result in no messages. 4. ping -c 3 205.213.113.254 - to see if you can reach your gateway. 5. ping -c 3 some.other.ip.addr - to see if you can get beyond your gateway. ---------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from console log: ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:29:EC:F2:97 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) # ifconfig eth0 205.213.113.123 netmask 255.255.255.0 up debug: lcs: new level 0 # route add default gw 205.213.113.254 netmask 0.0.0.0 # ping -c 3 205.213.113.254 /bin/sh: ping: not found # ping -c 3 205.213.113.190 /bin/sh: ping: not found # Thanks............ Larry ********************************************************** Privileged and/or confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or are not responsible for delivery of this message to that person) , you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and notify the sender by reply e-mail. If you or your employer do not consent to Internet e-mail for messages of this kind, please advise the sender. Shaw Industries, Inc. does not provide or endorse any opinions, conclusions or other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the company. **********************************************************
