[rhn-users] Strange Tcpip problem

Jon Branch jon_branch at email.com
Fri Feb 20 01:12:06 UTC 2004


Hi Larry

I had something similar, but not identical happen some months ago when I was setting up a new server for a school network. In that instance the problem was related to the firewall settings on the Linux server. So, if you haven't done so already in your own troubleshooting, can I suggest that you try disabling the firewall on the Linux server and see if that affects the problem.

Regards

Jon Branch
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Cotton <laurence.cotton at ntlworld.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:50:54 +0000
To: rhn-users at redhat.com
Subject: [rhn-users] Strange Tcpip problem

> Hi
> 
> Can anyone suggest any web sites / tools etc. that might help me to 
> troubleshoot go to this (see below) odd tcpip problem ?
> 
> Cheers
> Larry
> 
> Previous mails :
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sorry, I forgot to mention my set up.
> 
> The windows client has a single ethernet card with a static IP address, 
> connected to the LAN.
> 
> The linux server machine is has two ethernet cards, one of which has a 
> static ip addres and is connected to the LAN, the other of which is 
> connected to an ntl modem and uses dhcp (ntls dhcp server, not mine) to 
> obtain the IP address. It looks like the dhcp IP address is obtained 
> correctly - I,m using the linux machine as a gateway and both machines can 
> connect to the internet (even after reboot when tcpip seems a bit ify).
> 
> ipconfig /all on the windows client gives:
> Windows 2000 IP Configuration
> 
>          Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : larrys-machine
>          Primary DNS Suffix  . . . . . . . :
>          Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
>          IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
>          WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> 
> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
> 
>          Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
>          Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139(A) PCI Fast 
> Ethernet
>   Adapter
>          Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-E0-4C-49-02-B2
>          DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
>          IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.3
>          Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
>          Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
>          DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 194.168.8.100
>                                              194.168.4.100
> 
> ifconfig -a on the linux server machine gives:
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:02:12:17:7F
>            inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:54922 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:49226 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:1137 txqueuelen:100
>            RX bytes:6390916 (6.0 Mb)  TX bytes:23417576 (22.3 Mb)
>            Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe400
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:49:02:B2
>            inet addr:80.1.204.132  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:8004385 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:54939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>            RX bytes:514955468 (491.0 Mb)  TX bytes:7046649 (6.7 Mb)
>            Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:56105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:56105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:10348269 (9.8 Mb)  TX bytes:10348269 (9.8 Mb)
> 
> I'm fairly new to networking, so here's a couple of other snippets of 
> information which may or may not be relevant:
> 1) Previously I was connected to the internet from only my windows machine, 
> and had registered with ntl dsl services using that machine. Ntl links its 
> registration to the Mac address, so on changing nics I had to use ifconfig 
> to set the Mac address to the one registered.
> 
> 2) The clock on my server is currently wrong, and way out of synch with the 
> one on the client machine.
> 
> Cheers
> Larry
> 
> At 10:09 12/02/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> >Are you using DHCP?  Does it get an IP and all the information
> >correctly?
> >
> >ipconfig /all should show your settings.
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 10:17, Larry Cotton wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm trying to set up a small network. I am using samba (running on redhat
> > > 8) with windows workgroups as the file server and am now trying to set up a
> > > windows 2000 client to share files
> > >
> > > When I set up the client everything seems to work fine - I can see my
> > > server machine in Network Places and connection to my shared directory is
> > > successful and accessible from My Computer (mapped to J: drive).
> > >
> > > However when I reboot my client machine and re-logon something odd happens
> > > with my tcpip connection. I can still see and access my shared directory as
> > > J: drive under My Computer, but when I try to view my server from Network
> > > Places it comes up with an error saying it cant connect.
> > >
> > > In this state  I can ping my server machine fine, but when I ping 127.0.0.1
> > > I get "Request Timed Out" messages.
> > >
> > > It seems the only way to get get round these problems is to uninstall
> > > tcpip, reboot and re-install tcpip.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any idea what may be happening here ?  or know somewhere where
> > > I might be able to track the problem down ?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Larry
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
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