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Author: Jim
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Subject: Dummy lan question
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First thing i would check is to see if the other systems are defines in
/etc/hosts

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 07:17, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello:
> Yet another dumb question related to my new setup. My NIC is configured =

and=20
> ifconfig claims it's UP. I have the table set up correctly - at least, i=

t's=20
> configured the same as on my older Mandrake system (see below.) I know t=

he=20
> NIC, cable and router all work because it worked in Red Hat on the system=

in=20
> question. I've supposedly set the firewall rules "off" because this is a=

n=20
> internal system. What happens is that when I try to ping any other syste=

m on=20
> the LAN (or any other system tries to ping the new system) I get "Destina=

tion=20
> Host Unreachable." A check of the ifconfig seems to indicate that eth0 h=

as=20
> no send or receive bytes, but loopback (lo) increases the values of both=20
> numbers each time I do the ping. The "hostname" is set correctly; the=20
> computer with that hame "vaughn.nakota.com" is defined with the correct =

IP=20
> address in the hosts file. I also tried tinkering with the hosts.allow f=

ile,=20
> but my other systems work with out it (hosts.deny is empty.)  =20
>=20
> Output of route:
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use I=

face
> 192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 e=

th0
> 127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 l=

o
> default         basil           0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 e=

th0
>=20
> The system "basil" is my gateway and its IP is defined in the hosts file.
> Any ideas? It seems like I've probably got some simple setting wrong=20
> somewhere.
>=20
> Thanks,
> Vaughn
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>=20
>=20

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Jim

Freedom is all we really want

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