first, can and do you get a good dial up connection from mandriva box
through modem and to internet?
with that connected, I would just go to the switch not uplink, if you
are only going to connect to one other computer.
with the modem connected to the internet, please do include the output
of (as root in a text console, without the quote marks) "ifconfig" and
of "cat etc/hosts" and compare the same 'cat /etc/hosts on teh ther
box, they need to both
list the IP numbers of the box they wish to connect to, (not the IP of
the Internet connection which is the 'ppp' connection.
Might be good to know more about the switch you got, make and model?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:86:2B:AD
inet6 addr: fe80::20d:87ff:fe86:2bad/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:16416 (16.0 Kb) TX bytes:132871 (129.7 Kb)
Interrupt:23 Base address:0xd800
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4523 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4523 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:734873 (717.6 Kb) TX bytes:734873 (717.6 Kb)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:203.99.22.91 P-t-P:192.168.251.53
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10823 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10133 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:6206484 (5.9 Mb) TX bytes:964849 (942.2 Kb)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 coleraine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ localhost
And in second box - mepis:
ifconfig:
Linkencap:local feedback
lo
inet address 127.0.0.1
mask 255.0.0.0
cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 limavady local host
#The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
#(added automaticaly by netbase upgrade.)
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe 00:: 0 ip6-localnet
fe 00:: 0 ip6-mcast prefix
fe 02:: 1 ip6-allnodes
fe 02:: 2 ip6-allrouters
fe 02:: 3 ip6-allhosts
Hopes there's no syntax errors as have had to copy second box details
by hand.
It's an XNET 8 port ethernet switch SH-9008P
Houston, We have a problem! All of a sudden, I see why your connection
isn't working properly. None of your network cards have IP addresses
except for the modem connection!
Since your switch is only a switch, it lacks a DHCP server, and
therefore none of your systems are capable of getting IP addresses and
therefore they can't connect to each other at all.
This is easily fixable, but to do this, we'll need to get a few bits of
info from you. Please run the following command and send me (or us) the
results.
route -n
Thanks!
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Yes good connection to Internet from mandriva box.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.251.53 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 50 0 0 ppp0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.251.53 0.0.0.0 UG 50 0 0 ppp0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# exit
exit
* * * *
Mepis: has the same headings, but no values. I am reasonably sure this
box would have been networked before I got it. It has some numbers
assigned, but not activated, as they are in kind of subdued text (if you
know what I mean!).
IP 192.168.0.10
Network 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.0.1
Broadcast 192.168.0.255
Thanks for all your time on this (all of you)- very much appreciated.
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Rosemary
Registered Linux User # 386597 http://counter.li.org
"A friend may well be a masterpiece of nature". Emerson
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