hi there,
i am having problems getting my NIC cards to talk to
each other.
In the minimal system, I installed 2 NE2000 compatible
NICS one on each of my 2 intel-pentium+RHLinux6.1
systems. I could get the kernel to recognize the 2
NICs in both cases (ifconfig gives "UP" status and
both are detected OK at boot time).
I have bound card 1 as:
IP : 192.168.0.2
Netmask : 255.255.255.0
and card 2 as:
Ip : 192.168.0.3
netmask : 255.255.255.0
<basically a SINGLE ethernet network with no routing)
BUT, I cant ping, telnet, ftp etc from one m/c to
another (using IP or names). I get a "no route to
host" error in telnet/ftp and "dest unreachable" in
ping.
ALL the three (ping/telnet/ftp) work when I connect
the 2 NICs within a single m/c but I suspect (?) the
packets dont travel "throu" the network but actually
behave as in a loopback interface.
Q1. what did i do wrong/miss ?
Q2. is there any way of checking whether the
NIC+cable+NIC is hardware-ok ? (ie the prob is with
faulty h/w and not with s/w or OS config)
Thanks in advance,
James.
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search
the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question
to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.
