On 15 Sep 2005, Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > > googling hasn't helped. > > I'm not surprised, as it's quite a specific issue, and doesn't really > illustrate any one possible point of failure. > > > I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and > > ADSL > > modem. Both machines reach the internet without problems, one via a > > cable link to the modem, the other via a wireless link to the > > router. > > OK, so that at least proves that you have a default gateway setup OK. > > > However, they do not communicate with each other. I cannot ping from > > one > > to the other though I can ping localhost on each. Turning off the > > firewall (shorewall) does not help. > > Then you should use the command: > > traceroute <IP> > > To at least see where the point of failure is likely to be. > Furthermore, when asking questions like this, it is often handy to > include the output (or at least a link to it) of the: >
I already tried traceroute but it doesn't give any information (just a series of asterisks). Other results: For desktop: ac:~:$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ifconfig -a: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:2B:02:32:FB inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:80839 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:78184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:18500180 (17.6 MiB) TX bytes:6337927 (6.0 MiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:90947 (88.8 KiB) TX bytes:90947 (88.8 KiB) For laptop: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 ac:/usr/share/doc/shorewall:$ ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:1B:DE:4B:CF BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:11 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:96:44:B5:A6 inet addr:192.168.0.22 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::240:96ff:fe44:b5a6/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:490 errors:11307 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:11307 TX packets:309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:52 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:107110 (104.5 KiB) TX bytes:18357 (17.9 KiB) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2496 (2.4 KiB) TX bytes:2496 (2.4 KiB) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-40-96-44-B5-A6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:2312 Metric:1 RX packets:490 errors:11307 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:11307 TX packets:309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:52 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:107110 (104.5 KiB) TX bytes:18357 (17.9 KiB) Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk for using Linux GNU/Debian || blog, book reviews, electronic Microsoft-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]