[lug] RedHat LAN comm problem

[D. Stimits]

George Hyatt wrote:
> 
> I'm having an problem getting RedHat 7.2 set up for use in a simple test
> project.  I could sure use some help!
> 
> The test machines are 100 MHz Pentium jobs, with AM79C961A PCnet-ISA II
> LAN controller chips on the motherboard.  The RedHat install did not
> automatically set up any ethernet driver module.  RedHat site suggested
> the "lance" kernel module for this chip, a descendant of the original
> AM7990 LANCE.  modprobe apparently succeeds using the example parameters
> provided on the RedHat site, so I added that to /etc/modules.conf
> ("alias eth0 lance", and "options lance io=0x320 irq=5 dma=3"), and set
> address and netmask via netconfig utility.  This seemed to work OK, with
> eth0 initialized at boot, no errors reported (that I saw). ifconfig
> indicates eth0 up and running, and the Lance turns on the link light at
> the ethernet switch.  route reports the usual set of three routes,
> including the critical one onto the local net (192.168.1.0, netmask
> 255.255.255.0, via eth0).
> 
> But when I actually try to use the LAN, other hosts on the local net
> report the test host unreachable.  When I try to ping out of the test
> host, no packets go out via eth0.  Before & after ifconfig results
> indicate that the ping packets are being routed to lo0, not eth0,
> despite the specified routes!  WTF?
> 
> Please advise:  What did I configure wrong?  fail to configure?

What is the output of ifconfig and route? Do you have any firewall
options running?

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> TIA -
> 
> George Hyatt
> ghyatt at creativeconsulting.com
> 
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