Andrew,
What is your default route pointing to? Could you please send us
the output of '/sbin/route' executed on either of your (or both) your
machines?
Regards,
Kenneth
There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Andrew R. Brink wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got my network cards (3c509b) setup on 2 machines. But they cant
> ping each other?
>
> Here's the setup.
>
> machine 1 ---- 3com hub ----- machine 2
>
> machine 1 : ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 up
> route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
>
> machine 2 : ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 up
> route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
>
> What have I missed in my configuration? Why can't they ping each other?
>
> I'm pretty sure that the cables are working because when the machines
> try to ping each other, the packet light on my hub flashes.
>
> Please help me.
>
> TIA,
> Andrew Brink
> KB0YMH, Age 15.
>
