Dummy lan question

[Jim]

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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
--=20
 Jim

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