Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >> Machine with modem. >> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 >> >> Second machine. >> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 >> route add default gw 192.168.1.1 > > > I did this on both machines - no error messages, in both cases cursor > returned to command line. So far, so good. For the next test, from the first machine, run:
ping -c 5 192.168.1.2 This should give you something like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ping -c 5 192.168.1.2 PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.948 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.943 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.943 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.939 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.947 ms --- 192.168.1.2 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4003ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.939/0.944/0.948/0.003 ms >From the second machine, run: ping -c 5 192.168.1.1 You should get something like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ping -c 5 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.963 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.945 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=1.35 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=1.13 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.946 ms --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4003ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.945/1.067/1.350/0.162 ms The exact numbers will be different. You will probably get faster results then I did, because there is a bunch of other stuff going happening on this network at the same time, while you should have a quite network. If you get 100% packet loss, but no other errors, then you probably have a firewall running on one or both machines. While I normaly don't recomend running without a firewall, you may want to disable them for this testing. Just make sure you re-enable the firewall on the first machine before connecting to the Internet. You can turn the firewall off by running "service shorwall stop" as root. Mikkel -- Registered Linux User #16148 (http://counter.li.org/)
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