do both nic's show a link light? how about the hub?
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Johnnio wrote:
> Hi again Brian
>
> This is where I'm at currently...
>
> I'm now getting 'destination host unreachable'
>
>
> On the 1st box - RH 5.2 server
>
> netstat -nr
>
> 192.168.127.68 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0 0 eth0
> 192.168.127.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.127.68 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth0
>
> On 2nd box
>
> netstat -nr
>
> 192.168.127.65 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0 0 eth0
> 192.168.127.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.127.65 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth0
>
> Both boxes have each other in their /etc/hosts files
>
>
> Brian wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > Is this what you are saying that I need to see in 'netstat -nr
> > > > after ppp connects?
> > > >
> > > > 38.1.1.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0 0 eth0
> > > > 192.168.127.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0
> > > > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
> > > > 0.0.0.0 38.1.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 ppp0
> > > >
> > > > the goal is. Would this be correct?
> > >
> > > The above routing table looks good. what does arp -a show? anything?
> >
> > More than likely what is going on is this:
> >
> > 1. The machine you are seeing a "timeout" on, has a correct routing table.
> > It sends the ping to the destination, but the destination doesn't know how
> > to get back to the original source. Thus a "timeout".
> >
> > 2. The machine you are seeing nothing on, does not have a correct route to
> > the other machine.
> >
> > Both machines need the 192.168.127.0 route to work properly. Do a netstat
> > -rn on BOTH machines, and post it here if you like..........that is what's
> > needed.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Johnny
> > > >
> >
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