I have two boxes networked,this one (arjay) and another (oriole) which is running mandrake 7.1 When running RH 6.2 on oriole I can telnet from either box ok,but I cannot get the configuration for debian to work.
My understanding is that Deb./etc/network/interfaces corresponds to RH 6.2./etc/sysconfig/network and that all other filenames are the same in both systems. When I first did the setup telnetting from arjay worked properly but from oriole I was getting "connection refused". For other reasons I installed a postfix upgrade (apt-get install from unstable) yesterday and today 'telnet oriole' gets "trying 192.168.1.2" and nothing, and from oriole to arjay the same.? Apt installed about six files,but i can't remember them,surely upgrading postfix shouldn't screw up networking? The system in arjay is potato. So I must be missing something. Here are the relevant files In Redhat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=arjay DOMAINNAME=.rjp.home IPADDRESS=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 GATEWAY= In Debian /etc/network/interfaces iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway "" hostname arjay domainname .rjp.home networking yes In Debian /etc/networks localnet 127.0.0.0 eth0 192.168.1.0 All other files are the same on both boxes. What am I doing wrong? -- ----russ----