Re: Simple networking woes

[Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez <manuaroste yahoo es>]

if you reboot your RH8 your ifconfig -a output show
your 10.x.x.x IP o you must run ifconfig lo YOUR-IP
after rebooting your RH8?

 --- ben benjiboo org uk escribió: > I'm a Linux
networking newbie, but I've spent quite
> a few hours googling and
> going through howto's so thought I would now try
> here.  I have a redhat 9 box
> and a redhat 8 laptop.  The redhat 9 is online and
> working find (gets it's ip
> address from the cable modem.)  I've been trying to
> add the laptop.  
> 
> Firstly, I seem to have a few problems getting the
> laptops card to work.  The
> right device is detected in the network device
> control util.  However, tryign to
> activate the card fails, as does
> /etc/rc.id/init.d/network start (error:
> Determining IP information for eth0.... failed.)  I
> can bring it up with
> ifconfig, which subsequently reports that everything
> is active.  Why would the
> network start call fail, yet ifconfig appear to
> work?
> 
> Anyway, even after it appears to be working, the two
> machines can't ping each
> other.  (Either pinging the dhcp assigned address,
> or the one obtained after
> adding a second interface.  Output of ifconfig is
> included (IP address ommitted):
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> 00:00:21:C6:EF:63
>           inet addr:81.x.x.139 
> Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
> Metric:1
>           RX packets:23499 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:8355 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:5 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:20813589 (19.8 Mb)  TX
> bytes:677925 (662.0 Kb)
>           Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400
>  
> eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
> 00:00:21:C6:EF:63
>           inet addr:10.0.0.2  Bcast:10.255.255.255 
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 
> Metric:1
>           RX packets:23499 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:8355 errors:0 dropped:0
> overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:5 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:20813589 (19.8 Mb)  TX
> bytes:677925 (662.0 Kb)
>           Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400
> 
> running 'arp -a' on the laptop reports 10.0.0.2, but
> I'm not sure what arp is
> telling me.  My guess is that the laptop ethernet
> card is not being bought up
> fully - does this sound feasible?  If not, anything
> else I could do to debug? 
> Or, any more info you need?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Ben
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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