* Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I am guessing that the problem must be on the interfaces on > the debian machine. What does ifconfig on the debian machine show?
# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:57:C9:AF inet addr:192.168.1.99 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:228510 (223.1 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x7000 # route -ee Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface MSS Window irtt localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 40 0 0 default 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 40 0 0 # cat /etc/network/interfaces # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian # installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) # automatically added when upgrading auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.254 > Your previous email had no auto eth0 line in your > /etc/network/interfaces listed nor a lo stanza. Perhaps the interface > is just not up? sorry about that. the previous post didn't include the entire interface file. above is the complete file. the interface /is/ up, because i can successfully gateway to the DSL modem. i just can't see 192.168.1.10 on machine "a" and machine "a" can't see this box. -- ____) ,_) ,_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ____) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_, _______________________________________________ | http://www.exitwound.org : hard to find | _______________________________________________ | The horror... the horror! | _______________________________________________ -------------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------------- | Version: 3.1 | | GJ/IT d- s: a C+++>$ UL++++ P+++ L+++ E--- W++| | N+@ o K- w O- M- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5@ X++ | | R tv+@ b+ DI++++ D+ G++ e++++ h---- r+++ y+++ | --------------END GEEK CODE BLOCK--------------