I'm building a Debian workstation here at work and am having trouble ping-ing out to the network. It's a Dell Optiplex GX270 with integrated gigE. The machine ran for the first few months on WinXP and saw the network fine, so I'm pretty sure the hardware is still functional. I ran the Debian netinstall and then planned to apt-get packages from a local Debian mirror here. The network configuration step failed when looking for the DHCP server. I went ahead with the rest of the install, rebooted, and then assigned an arbitrary IP that was unique to the network, and ifconfig-ed and route-d the settings identical to another Debian box I built a few months back. After /etc/networking restart I can ping from that machine to itself via the loopback @ 127.0.0.1 and to itself via the IP I assigned. I cannot ping from that machine to the DHCP server or anywhere else.
I tried from the other Debian workstation and can ping to itself, to the new box using the IP as well as the hostname, and to the DHCP server. I've included some of the output from those commands at the bottom. I booted up Knoppix on the problematic machine and it couldn't configure the network either, I though that would work for sure. Where else should I check? Is ping-ing the loopback enough of a diagnostic for the function of the NIC? How can I check the physical connection of the port. I've connected it to two different ports with two different cables, all of which are known to work (I can ping to the machine, but not from) Any other ideas? Joey ##These are pings from the working Debian box to the problem box 1) using arbitrary IP # ping -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.240 PING xxx.xxx.xxx.240 (xxx.xxx.xxx.240) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.240: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.456 ms 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.240: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.440 ms 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.240: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.410 ms 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.240: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=0.344 ms 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.240: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=0.383 ms --- xxx.xxx.xxx.240 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4044ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.344/0.406/0.456/0.045 ms 2) using hostname # ping -c 5 mmag PING mmag.xxx.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.240) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mmag.xxx.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.240): icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.507 ms 64 bytes from mmag.xxx.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.240): icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.453 ms 64 bytes from mmag.xxx.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.240): icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.504 ms 64 bytes from mmag.xxx.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.240): icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=0.404 ms 64 bytes from mmag.xxx.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.240): icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=0.372 ms --- mmag.xxx.com ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4119ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.372/0.448/0.507/0.053 ms #) to DHCP server # ping -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.2 PING xxx.xxx.xxx.2 (xxx.xxx.xxx.2) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=30 time=2.17 ms 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=30 time=2.17 ms 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=30 time=2.19 ms 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=30 time=3.08 ms 64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=30 time=2.21 ms --- xxx.xxx.xxx.2 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4084ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.175/2.369/3.088/0.362 ms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph Karalius Research Assistant II - Bioinformatics Molecular Markers and Applied Genomics Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. 37437 State Highway 16 Woodland, CA 95695-9353 office: 530-669-6131 lab: 530-669-6290 joseph.karalius(a)seminis dot com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
