Re: problems with eth0 set-up (resolved)

2001-12-28 Thread Rachel Andrew
Hi many thanks for all the suggestions and help with my non-working nic. I ended up sticking a cheap SMC card in the box and lo and behold it worked first time... so I never did find out what was the problem with the netgear but at least I now have a working system! After I got past this pro

Re: problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-27 Thread Ray
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:38:01PM +, Rachel Andrew wrote: > > > > > > >How exactly are you pinging? Something like ping 192.168.0.XXX or ping > >myhost.mydomain.com? What exactly are the results when you try? > > neither work - my gateway for instance is 10.0.0.10 > > if I ping that (I th

Re: problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-27 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Rachel Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --snip--< ifconfig: eth0Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:5E:69:C1 inet addr: 10.0.0.16 Bcast: 10.0.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric:1 RX Packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

Re: problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-27 Thread Jor-el
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Rachel Andrew wrote: > ifconfig: > eth0Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:5E:69:C1 > inet addr: 10.0.0.16 Bcast: 10.0.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric:1 > RX Packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 fram

Re: problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-26 Thread Rachel Andrew
How exactly are you pinging? Something like ping 192.168.0.XXX or ping myhost.mydomain.com? What exactly are the results when you try? neither work - my gateway for instance is 10.0.0.10 if I ping that (I then have to ctrl-C out of it): 10.0.0.10 ping statistics 4 packets transmi

Re: problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-26 Thread Rachel Andrew
On the other hand if your ISDN Router is expecting a "static" IP and eth0 is setup to use dhcp, then you probably should change it to use a "static" IP in /etc/network/interfaces. Again, you will have to have some "good" DNS servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf. I have it set up with a stati

Re: problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-26 Thread Ray
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:34:00PM +, Rachel Andrew wrote: > > I can ping the card and the machine name from itself but I can't ping my > gateway (ISDN router) or any other machines on the network and I can't ping > this box from any other machine. How exactly are you pinging? Something li

Re: problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-26 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Rachel Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: further to that last email, I just did: route and while localnet appears immediately, the default gateway takes about 5 minutes to appear. When it does appear it looks correct (as compared to my other box with a similar configuration) however I still

Re: problems with eth0 set-up

2001-12-26 Thread Rachel Andrew
further to that last email, I just did: route and while localnet appears immediately, the default gateway takes about 5 minutes to appear. When it does appear it looks correct (as compared to my other box with a similar configuration) however I still have no access into or out of this box.