Hi Mike, Just a quick response to the book question. It was in Linux Networking HOWTO - DocBook Rev .02 Joshua Drake. Re the other questions I'll get them tonight and cc the group. When I run netstat -r & ifconfig it all looks OK relative to the howto. Thanks Geant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Intelligent Dynamic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] can't establish network connect
> G'day Grant... > > The operative words being "which aren't on your ethenet segment" (btw... > which book is that?)... > > If your Linux box and windows box are connected by a hub or coax, then they > are on the same ethernet segment. What's your Windows IP setup like, and > what is your Linux route table and ifconfig table like? (Ie. the output of > `route` and `ifconfig`) > > (NB. you may want to CC the list in on the email.) > > Have fun... > > Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Intelligent Dynamic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 10:27 AM > Subject: Re: [SLUG] can't establish network connect > > > > Hi Mike, > > Thanks for your tip. I've removed the default gateway. Closer reading of > > the howto states that adding a default gateway is for 'all of the IP > hosts > > which aren't on your ethernet segment' p.17. Still can't reach the w box > > though. > > Grant > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Intelligent Dynamic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 11:55 PM > > Subject: Re: [SLUG] can't establish network connect > > > > > > > G'day... > > > > > > You shouldn't have a default gateway of 192.168.1.1 if the machines are > on > > > the same network segment!!! > > > > > > What this means, is that your machine is trying to send all the packets > > for > > > 192.168.1.3 (Windows box) through a router/gateway with the network ip > > > address of 192.168.1.1 as this machine cannot be found (or is not set up > > for > > > such functionality) the packets are being ignored and lost. Hence your > > > problem. > > > > > > Remove this entry from your route and your network should work fine. > > > > > > All the best... > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Grant > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 9:02 PM > > > Subject: [SLUG] can't establish network connect > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm going to set up my linux box (RH 7.2) as a server for a couple of > > Win98 > > > boxes. At the moment I can't ping the W box. Using the network howto > > eth0 > > > is 192.168.1.10 the route is .1.0 & the default gw is .1.1 Running > > > netstat -r the table is as I think it should be. My card is ne2k-pci. > > The > > > fault message is destination host unreachable (the w box is 192.168.1.3) > > > Thanks. > > > Grant > > > > > > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
