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Re: ping: Destination Host Unreachable

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From: Zebee Johnstone
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 00:00
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In aus.computers.linux on Thu, 09 Nov 2000 07:49:07 GMT
Matthew Klassen <antibios@linuxfreak.com> wrote:
>1. Yes i can ping 127.0.0.1
>2. Yes each card can be pinged, ie. 
>192.168.0.1 (eth0)
>192.168.0.2 (eth1)
>however if I try pinging one from the other, ie.
>ping 192.168.0.1 -I eth1
>I get network host unreachable
>
>I gave the ip forward thing a try but that didn't help.
>basically the set up is that both cards are on the 192.168.0.0 network
>with a netmask of 255.255.255.0  Dont get too worried about me having
>the two cards in there and the problems with that, see I've just put
>them both in there to test it, the initial problem was that if one card
>was in there with the exact same settings as another rh6.2 box, it still
>couldn't ping the network, so i've been swaping cards and changing isa
>slots and even changing distributions, and nothing seems to be working.
>

Hmm..

Can you ping your network with either card?

Have you checked that you have unique IP addresses?

If you have been swapping alot, you may have old ARP addresses hanging
about too...

Post the results of ifconfig -a and netstat -rn, might seem something
that you've missed.

Zebee
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From: zebee@zip.com.au (Zebee Johnstone)
Subject: Re: ping: Destination Host Unreachable
Date: 2000/11/09
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