Roger Searle wrote:Pings not being absorbed locally by zonealarm pro - I can ping between 2 desktops, one running xp, the other running mandrake. Can't ping the notebook from either.
Notebook IP address 192.168.0.9/255.255.255.0. It has an onboard realtek RTL-8139 network module, the hardware control centre correctly identifies it and lists the 8139too module (driver?).
I can ping localhost and ping the IP address on the notebook OK. I can't ping further than that, nor can I ping the notebook from another
Not good. Try pinging the broadcast address from the notebook.
machine (when the notebook is booted under linux). I don't know what to do now, and don't want to give up! Can anyone help me?
Then tell us what your routing table looks like (route -e).
You also might want to check dmesg and tell us what 8139too spits out when it loads.
Next, make sure that there is no firewall absorbing all the ICMP requests (external pings).
Cheers, Rex
ping 192.168.0.255 -c 5 -b
that works fine.
pinging other machines gives Destination Host Unreachable (they are definitely there!)
[when looking at the dmesg output, I see references to sound, which is also not working (onboard too), not sure if that's relevant]
dmesg grep | 8139too
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
snd soundcore nfsd ds yenta_socket pcmcia_core af_packet ide-floppy ide-tape ide-cd cdrom floppy 8139too mii nls_cp850 vfat fat nls_iso8859-1 ntfs supermount ehci-hcd usb-uhci usbcore rtc ext3 jbd
sg st sr_mod sd_mod scsi_mod i830 agpgart snd soundcore nfsd ds yenta_socket pcmcia_core af_packet ide-floppy ide-tape ide-cd cdrom floppy 8139too mii nls_cp850 vfat fat nls_iso8859-1 ntfs supermount ehci-hcd usb-uhci usbcore rtc ext3 jbd
route -e [trying to lay it out nicely...]
Kernel IP Routing Table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
