[LARTC] Can't ping another machine.

[Mark Tiller Mark.Tiller@corvu.co.uk]

<PRE>Dear All,

 I'm a newbie to Linux and I'm not sure if this problem is appropriate to
this list, if not, my apologies to the list, however I am beginning to
beleive this is a routing problem.

I'm trying to get TCP/IP running on my system, I have a DLINK 530TX, Linux
says it running ok, I'm
currently running Corel 1.2 previously Mandrake 7.1 which had exactly the
same result (thought I'd try another distrib). 

The box can ping itself, but nothing else. 

I have the Linux box set as follows: 

Ip Addr 192.168.1.1 
Netmask 255.255.255.0 
Gateway 192.168.1.2 

I have a win2k machine connected via a crossover cable that works fine (I
can connect the to machines OK when I boot the Linux box into
Windows 98 or 2000). 

The win2k has TCP/IP set as follows 

Ip Addr 192.168.1.2 
Netmask 255.255.255.0 
NO gateway. 

If I try and ping the linux box from WIn2k I get Timeouts. 

IF I try to ping the win2k machine from Linux I get no error messages just
100% packet loss. 

ifconfig -a shows as follows: 

lo Link encap:Local Loopback 
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 
RX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
Collisions:0 

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:07:2F:34 
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
TX packets:7 errors:201 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
Collisions:0 
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6500 

Any help anyone can give would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.



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