[lug] problems manually configuring IP...

John Hernandez John.Hernandez at noaa.gov
Thu Apr 12 11:28:42 MDT 2001


Hmm.  That's odd.  If you don't mind, send the output of:

Send the output of:

netstat -r

ifconfig eth0

arp -a

Am I missing anything?

> "celttechie (Brian Jarrett)" wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> Once again I believe I need a little assistance.  I initially loaded Debian on my machine without having a NIC available.  Now I have an old 3c509 in the box and I'm trying to get it to connect to my network.  I've done all of the following but still can't ping anything at all.
> 
> I have a link light
> I've modified /etc/network/interfaces to include eth0
> I've modified /etc/modules.conf to alias eth0 to the 3c509 module
> I've recompiled the kernel and made the modules, also doing "make modules_install"
> 
> Everything seems to load OK, I run "ifup -a" and check ifconfig and "netstat -r" and it all looks fine.  I see the loopback and eth0 interfaces, the eth0 interface is listed as up with an IP address of 10.0.0.47, the routing table shows the default route for network 10.0.0.0 is through eth0, and shows the default gateway as 10.0.0.250 going through eth0.  No other interfaces are configured and the gateway IP is correct.  I try to ping 10.0.0.6 which is a server that is responding from another machine, but I get no replies.
> 
> Is there something that I'm missing?  I've tried another 3c509 card, but that one doesn't work either, although I suppose both may be bad.  Anything else I can check before I try yet another NIC?
> 
> Brian



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