On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:30:28PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > 3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or > out. > > any pointers are appreciated -- here's the output from several > various related commands that i know about, so you who've > travelled this road might be able to direct me in my efforts: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifdown eth0 ; ifup eth0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:8C:82:CF:3B > inet addr:208.251.253.83 Bcast:208.251.253.87 Mask:255.255.255.248 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
Hi, maybe here you got an error. IIRC, your broadcast address must be 208.251.253.255, and your Network Mask 255.255.255.0 if you have a class C internet address. HTH, Rafael Sasaki
