Are your wires good? Erratic UTP cables are known to DoS dhcp servers and
network connectivity...
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I cannot send you any file using my browser (ftp server policy probably).
>
> Anyway, the 3 boxes I am referring to, are connected to a hub which is now uplinked
>to the main network. I also changed the configuration of the 3 boxes. I enabled them
>as DHCP clients, including the server. The gateway was also set so that they can look
>up on the DHCP server. Workstation2 is working fine now, I am using it right now for
>sending this email...
>
> The other boxes (workstation1 and server) are not working properly. The following
>has been done already:
>
> 1. Reinstalled Mandrake 7.2
> 2. Set the network configuration to DHCP enabled and configured the gateway
> 3. Checked if the dhcpcd is running (timed out, including in reboot)
> 4. Reinstalled dhcpd service (rpm -Uvh --force dhcpcd*.rpm --nodeps) from the
>installation disk
> 5. Reboot the boxes (eth0 for both nonworking boxes failed to lookup for IP)
> 6. Used static IPs. Didn't work also
>
> When I ran ifconfig eth0, walang inet address na nakukuha. Ganoon din pag 'dhcpcd -d
>eth0', timed out din
>
> Somebody told me that it might be the NIC. Pero dalawa kasing PCs to na ang isa bago
>pa lang.... Kaya di ako maniwala na NIC ito...
>
> Please advice.....
>
> --Leo
>
>
> On Friday, March 30, 2001 at 06:44:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > sent me the output of /sbin/ifconfig and netstat -rn for both machines. i
> > could not easily conclude from this email. however, there is a large
> > chance that your problem is a hardware problem. good luck.
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Maenard Leo L Martinez wrote:
> >
> > > I have 3 Linux boxes (1 server and 2 workstations) connected to a hub. They are
>the Mandrake 7.2 distro. The following are the networking properties:
> > >
> > > Server IP: 172.16.1.1
> > > Server Subnet: 255.255.255.0
> > > Hostname: Server.Linux
> > > Domain: Linux
> > >
> > > Workstation IP: 172.16.1.2
> > > Workstation Subnet: 255.255.255.0
> > > Hostname: Workstation1.Linux
> > > Domain: Linux
> > >
> > > Workstation IP: 172.16.1.3
> > > Workstation Subnet: 255.255.255.0
> > > Hostname: Workstation2.Linux
> > > Domain: Linux
> > >
> > > The server was installed on the costum mode. I just selected almost all of the
>features (I didn't inlude the databases and some games). The same with the
>workstations, they were also costum installed. All of them have neither DNS settings
>nor Gateway settings.
> > >
> > > The problem is I cannot PING the PCs from any other PCs. I am not sure if the
>domain is not correct. I am more apt on RH6.2, as far as I know, as long as you have
>the same subnet, you can ping the other workstations belonging on that subnet. I've
>done networking for linux inside an NT domain. Pero nagtataka ako dito sa Mandrake,
>di gumagana kahit they all belong on the same subnet. I can PING their local eth0
>address and the loopback. And during bootup, the eth0 boots up normally.
> > >
> > > Could someone point out where I commited a mistake?
> > >
> > > Another thing, I cannot open the LinuxConf applet (how do you call it in linux
>parlance?) from the Mandrake's "Control Panel" (forgot the name)? This happened on
>the server. So, I used LinuxConf in the terminal window. But on the 2 workstations,
>the applet worked from KDE just fine.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Leo
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