Hi, Dave,
When you say it doesn't work, are you not able to communicate at all,
like even with ping? Excuse me for being prosaic, but if you can't even
ping, have you checked your cables? (Happened to me once.) Good luck,
Hidong
David Taylor wrote:
>
> Hi guys.
>
> A while ago I setup some RH Linux machines to work on our LAN. They all
> worked fine. I was recently asked to setup another machine from scratch
> to work on the LAN. I have modified /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts,
> /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/conf.modules appropriately. I have
> assigned it a name and IP at the name server. For some reason or
> another it just isn't working, though.
>
> The output of ifconfig looks fine and dandy. However, route has an
> extremely long delay before displaying the last line of the "Kernel IP
> routing table". Here is a copy of the output (retyped meticulously, as
> I don't have network access on that machine):
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> 129.78.8.203 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
> eth0
> 129.78.8.0 * 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0
> eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
> lo
> default 129.78.11.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
> eth0
>
> That last line is the IP of the gateway.
>
> # grep "^254" /var/named/11.78.129.IN-ADDR.ARPA
> 254 IN PTR br-f09-2.gw.usyd.edu.au.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. I'm currently stumped after
> rereading all the documentation and finding that I've (apparently) done
> everything correctly.
>
> I can find no difference in those config files I've mentioned between
> the new machine and the old (working) machines. So, is there a file
> that I've entirely forgotten about and missed in the documentation?
>
> ps. The NIC uses the tulip driver. Both the NIC and driver are the
> same as those used by the other machines that work.
> pps. It would be great if you could reply both to the list and to my
> e-mail address.
>
> --
> David
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