Net connection Problem

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

Hello All, I hope your Thanksgiving was great.  Having some time
on my hands I thought I'd set my file server up to also be a mail
server - why? because it's there.

I use fetchmail to retrieve my email from various accounts and
it's been running for years on my computers.   Recently I set up
a FC2 machine to store music, picutres and movies so the house
could share.  It's working fine.

I moved my .fetchmailrc file to this server and have been trying
to get fetchmail to grab my mail and save it, then I'll share the
/var/spool/mail directory and everyone will have access to there
mail.  At lest thats the idea.

Well, I keep getting an exit code of 2 from fetchmail.  This is
listed as a socket error.  Doing some experminting I can not ping
mail.comcast.net from my FC2 file server but I can from my other
machines.

Looking at the ifconfig output the biggest difference I see is
bcast on the file server is 192.168.1.255 and 255.255.255.255.  I
was thinking it may be a gateway issue but I don't see that
listed under ifconfig and don't remember how to look for that or
how to set it up if it's wrong.

Right now I have a Linksys switch servinig as a DHCP server but
the file server has a fixed IP as I couldn't get NFS to find a
floating IP.  That shouldn't be a problem as my old fetchmail
server also had a fixed IP but there is the Bcast difference
which surprised me.

Suggestions?

Thanks,

Brad Mugleston, KI0OT

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