Typically, IP addresses should not end in .0, since that (in addition to .255) amounts to a broadcast address.
More information on assigning IP addresses can be found in RFC 1219 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1219.html) Jason On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 02:36, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: > Dear all, > I am trying to set up oscar 2.3.1 on a RH9.0 box to serve an similar > AMD pc. > > The installation appears to complete without too much trouble. > > When I boot up the client node, it sees the server and takes > up the IP address assigned by the server over DHCP as expected. > > But some way down, it fails when it tries to > > rsync -av 196.168.0.0::boot/i386/standard/boel_binaries.tar.gz > /tmp/beol_binaries > > with the error: > rsync: failed to connect to 196.168.0.0: Network unreachable. > (196.168.0.0 is the server address on eth1, the client is > 196.168.0.1). > > It then aborts and shows a # prompt. > > But from the #sh, I can ping 196.168.0.0 > The /tmp/beol_binaries directory is present too. > > On the server (196.168.0.0), I have checked: > a. the rsync daemon is up and running, > b. I can repeat the above command to copy the boel_binaries.tar.gz to > its local /tmp directory. > > Any idea what is causing this? > > PS. Pls email your response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well. > Many thanks. <<...OLE_Obj...>> > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
