Check out this site. It's very helpful. http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/index.html Seve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP >On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 10:56:02PM -0400, Alex V Flinsch wrote: >> I just got a home lan set up (sort of anyway) >> Everything works fine when all boxes are running under win98. > >I just want to say upfront that you've done an excellent job of including >the information that we'll need to start fixing this problem! It's not >often that we get this much (and useful) output. > >> Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 >> Machine 2 - linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 > >Is this a mistype? Check 'ifconfig eth0' on Linux and 'winipcfg' on Windows >to see what each thinks it's IP is. > >> /etc/hosts >> 192.168.1.2 localhost.localdomain linux1 >> 192.168.1.1 windows1 upstairs >> 192.168.1.2 linux1 basement > >That first line should read: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > >else you'll find that some things break. > >> Found Macronix 98715 PMAC at I/O 0xe400. >> tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f8 94 97, IRQ 11. > >Could you post the output of 'ifconfig eth0' and 'route -n'? > >Thanks! > >-- >Steve Philp >Network Administrator >Advance Packaging Corporation >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
