Hello:
Yet another dumb question related to my new setup. My NIC is configured and
ifconfig claims it's UP. I have the table set up correctly - at least, it's
configured the same as on my older Mandrake system (see below.) I know the
NIC, cable and router all work because it worked in Red Hat on the system in
question. I've supposedly set the firewall rules "off" because this is an
internal system. What happens is that when I try to ping any other system on
the LAN (or any other system tries to ping the new system) I get "Destination
Host Unreachable." A check of the ifconfig seems to indicate that eth0 has
no send or receive bytes, but loopback (lo) increases the values of both
numbers each time I do the ping. The "hostname" is set correctly; the
computer with that hame "vaughn.nakota.com" is defined with the correct IP
address in the hosts file. I also tried tinkering with the hosts.allow file,
but my other systems work with out it (hosts.deny is empty.)
Output of route:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default basil 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
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
somewhere.
Thanks,
Vaughn
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