Kenneth Stephen wrote:
>
> 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?
here you go:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
>
> 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.
> >
