125.125.125.1 pinging to 125.125.125.2 shouldn't make a difference if it's a
private IP or not as it should still ping it.
My guess is that the NIC has a wrong IRQ or something similar. Pinging
yourself doesn't actually go through the wire so of course you'll be able to
ping yourself.
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thom May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 1:05 AM
To: Daniel Hogan
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] IP Config
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:49:49AM -0500, Daniel Hogan said:
> Hey it the NFS guy again with some more questions.
> I installed RedHat 6.1 and i attempted to configure the NIC but I ran into
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> some problems:
>
> lo 127.0.0.1
> eth0 125.125.125.1
>
> I need the address to be 125.125.125.1, =20
> 1st ?ion > What does "lo" mean?
lo is the local loopback address - ie the machine.
>
> I tried pinging 125.125.125.1 from the Linux machine (ping myself) course
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> that worked.
> I then tried pinging RedHat machine from a Windows machine (ip =3D =
> 125.125.125.2)
> and I got no response
what does the windows machine say, specifically? the probable
reason is that 125.125.125.1 is a non private IP - it seems to
be hosted in Montreal, Canada at first look. The win box would
be looking for a router, i'd imagine.
> Any suggestions?
Use a private ip range unless you actually own 125.125.125.* .
send more info!
> Please email me at back here and at home > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I am trying to use the RedHat as a server that connects by dial-up to the
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> internet, distributes the internet across the LAN and has space that can =
> be used by the Windows machines on the LAN (NFS). There is one RedHat =
> server and 5 other windows clients.
OK, so you'll need diald, squid or wwwoffle, and samba. why on
earth are you causing yourself so much pain by using NFS with
windows? Use samba - it's *so* much quicker and easier to use
with windows it's insane, and then you can mount drives natively
on windows and all sorts of other stuff.
-Thom
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