It's pc-hub-pc connection. and i think the cables are ok. coz i can see a DHCP request has been recieved by the dhcp server and a ip has been offered. this is the message from /var/log/message
Jan 13 13:04:10 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.249 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 when static ip is used. this is my config IP: 192.168.0.250 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: n/a Primary nameserver: n/a then FTP server: 192.168.0.103 (this is also the dhcp server) --- Greg Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is this pc to pc, or pc to hub to pc ? > > in the 1st case you need 1 cross cable > > in the 2nd case you need 2 straight cables > > if you do not have the correct utp cable wiring, > then you're network won't > connect. One test is to ping (using the ip numbers) > once the network is > configured (ifconfig/route). > > another thing to check is that the routing is > correct, and esp that the default > route (though for a local install, all lan > references local, standard netmask > routing ought to be sufficient). > > -Greg > > On 12-Jan-2002 Jeff Ai wrote: > > hello guys, i am having a problem installing > RedHat > > 7.2 using a PCMCIA network card (D-Link DFE660) on > a > > Compaq Armada laptop. > > I have a linux desktop set up as a DHCP server and > ftp > > server (Mandrake 8.1) > > I made the pcmcia boot disk and pcmcia driver > disk. > > boot from the disk is ok, so is the driver. Linux > > detected my d-link card ok and asked me to config > the > > TCP/IP. > > I selected using DHCP and from the syslog on the > DHCP > > server i can see that an IP has been assigned to > the > > laptop. However, the laptop did not give me any > error > > message nor did it allow me to select the network > > installation methods (FTP, HTTP or NFS). > > If i configure the TCP/IP using static > > IP(192.168.0.250, MASK 255.255.255.0 no gateway, > no > > DNS), then choose install from FTP, it gives me > that > > error that could not connect the FTP server > > (192.168.0.103 no message in the syslog off > course). I > > think those two machines are not networked. > > > > do you guys have any idea what is going on here? > > > > thanks a lot > > > > Jeff > > > > http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! > > - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - > http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ > You can release software that's good, software > that's inexpensive, or > software that's available on time. You can > usually release software > that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all > 3. > | Greg Hosler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
