At 10:58 AM 3/8/00 -0600, Michael Stearne wrote:
>I have a laptop that I want to hook up to the network I am working on
>right now. The computer works fine at home on my little network but, I
>can't get it working here. I need the computer to be IP address
>192.168.1.200 and the Netmask to be 255.255.255.244 and the gateway to
>be 127.0.0.2. I am using RH 6.1. I have used linxconf to change these
>values but when I run /sbin/ifconfig eth0 it show:
>inet addr:192.168.1.12 Bcast:192.168.1.15 Mask:255.255.255.0
>
>It should say 255.255.255.244 right? I changed this value in linuxconf,
>but it doesn't change in /sbin/ifconfig
Well, yes. But it should also say 192.168.1.200, shouldn't it? So clearly
the changes didn't take correctly in more ways than one. I don't know
linuxconf, but it must just change some values in a startup file like
/wherever_RedHat_puts_it/init.d/network . You might just change the values
by hand and restart network. Oh, notice that the broadcast addrress is (sort
of) right -- at least it is consistent with a 255.255.255.244 netmask.
>
>Now the situation is I can ping any computer on the network using ip
>addresses and computers on the network can ping me using ping
>192.168.1.12. But I can reach any outside addresses, either straight IP
>addresses or names like netscape.com.
>
>The network is an ISDN connection and I am just really connecting to the
>router that is at 192.168.1.1 (127.0.0.2 ??) and 255.255.255.244. DNS
>server should be 198.6.1.1
I don't understand what you mean by "the network" versus "outside
addresses". Do you mean only addresses in the address space 192.168.1.0/28
(or /24)? Can you ping the nameserver, for example? All the addresses you
are using are private addresses, so somewhere upstream from you, there must
be a gateway that does some sort of NAT. Your use of 127.0.0.2 as a gateway
is sufficiently unusual that I can't make sense of it or think of how it
might be equivalent to 192.168.1.1 .
Other pieces are puzzling too. If you really are supposed to be using
192.168.1.200/28, that isn't on the same network as the router you say you
connect to via ISDN. 192.168.1.12/28 is on the same network, however.
All I can suggest here is that you post a more complete description of the
network setup as you understand it. Include your interface configuration
(ifconfig -a) and your routing table (route -n).
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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