🚀 go-pugleaf

Also
if you have a windows machine on that network, this can also recieve an IP
from this server!

Cheers again
Johno

felixthecat <felixthecat@erols.com> wrote in message
news:8udjjt$hgv$1@bob.news.rcn.net...
> Hi all --
> New to Red Hat (and Unix) but having fun. Trying to get two boxes on a LAN
> to talk. Both are RedHat 6.2.  Both have local addr  (192.168.1.2 and
> 192.168.1.3)
> Both can successfully ping themselves (the 192 addrs) but there seems to
be
> a prob w/ the interface for .2    It can't ping .3; get "network is
> unreachable", and pinging from .3 to .2 get "Destination Host
unreachable".
>
> indeed, seems the .2 interface is not 'up'.  'ifconfig'  (with no params)
> yields 'UP' info for localhost, and nothing for the 192 addr, and if i
force
> it with 'ifconfig -a' it doesn't seem to be UP:
>
> eth0  HWAddr 00:A0:CC:63:4D:AC
>     inet  bcast mask (all look good)
>     BROADCAST  RUNNING  MULTICAST   (note no 'UP')
>
> Whereas ifconfig for the .3 box yields 'UP' interfaces for both localhost
> and eth0.
>
> 'route' seems ok for .3
>     192.168.1.0   255.255.255.0  U  0  0  0  eth0
>     127.0.0.0   ....U  0  0  0  lo
>
> ...but not so good for .2, only get the localhost (nothing for 192)
>
> /etc/hosts file seems fine.  have put both addrs into each host file on
each
> machine (that is, the host files are identical).
>
> 192.168.1.2  (the funky one) has a Netgear FA 310 TX Fast Ether PCI
adapter
> 192.168.1.3             3Com etherlink 10/100 PCI board  3C905C TX
>
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
> Cheers
> --Felixthecat
>
>