James, Being able to ping the local interface just means that the network driver loaded. It doesn't even guarantee that it's talking to the device. As Jeff noted, it could be a netmask problem. It could be something else, such as a lack of a default gateway, or any number of other things.
Post the output from these commands: ifconfig ifconfig -a route -n Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Rivers, James E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subject: Unable to Ping the Network I have IPL'd LINUX from tape on S390: I can ping the IP address of the host but I can't ping the network (or outside the host). What could be the problem? -----Original Message----- From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00 At 17:56 23-04-02, you wrote: >Also, you commented that Rob's recipe for writing the IPL files to disk was >based on the premise of having OS/390 available. I'm pretty sure that VM >has the equivalent of ICKDSF available, so the method should be adaptable to >that environment. (Of course, I don't think Rob or I ever thought it would >be necessary under VM.) Oh, &deity forbid... obviously I used that to develop the stuff but the process with ICKDSF on VM was painful to do. I misunderstood the environment. The logging shows no ramdisk recognized. Either the ramdisk was corrupted during download or maybe the wrong kernel is being used (though I think the 0003 FILES CHANGED is only when you have the the RDR IPL configured in I think). Rob
