[Bull Terrier]

Hey Guys,
I'm really stuck here.
I've got two Slackware 9.0 machines and all I want to do is ping them.
They can both ping themselves (loopback and eth0)
but cannot ping each other.
I have checked /etc/hosts and everything seems ok with route command, netmask is ok ra ra ra.

Could somebody pleeeeeeease help me.
I'm sick of bloody windoze.

Thanks in advance....

[Squashman]

How are these machines networked. Hub, Switch, router etc.....or just a crossover cable. Are the lights on on the back of the nic and do they flash when you try to ping. Have you tested the cables?

Well lets see the output of: ifconfig eth0 on each machine.

And do you have a broadband connection. Just wondering if you can ping outside your lan.

[lynch]

Open a terminal as root and run netconfig on both machines.That should get things straight.
Slackware is sort of like driving with a stickshift.It ain't as easy as driving in automatic but you shift gears when you want to.
HTH
lynch

[Bull Terrier]

The machines are hooked via a crossover cable. I had them connected to a hub, I thought the hub or one of the cables could have been faulty so I changed to the crossover.
The lights are lit on both of the NICs are they flash when I try and ping the other box. But they just don't get there. lol
When I try to ping the machines the light flashes on both the network cards.

Machine 1
bash-2.05b# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:0D:48:A6
inet addr:192.168.0.110 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:540 (540.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x8000



lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1252 (1.2 Kb) TX bytes:1252 (1.2 Kb)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:202.138.18.2 P-t-P:192.168.226.9 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1479 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1505 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:1276516 (1.2 Mb) TX bytes:141385 (138.0 Kb)


/etc/hosts
# For loopbacking.
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.110 josie.internal josie
192.168.0.111 smoothwall.internal smoothie

bash-2.05b# cat /etc/HOSTNAME
josie.internal


bash-2.05b# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.226.9 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.226.9 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0




Machine 2

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:F8:05:08:5C
inet addr:192.168.0.111 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0xec00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

/etc/hosts
#For loopbacking.
127.0.0.1 localhost
129.168.0.111 smoothwall.internal smoothie
192.168.0.110 josie.internal josie

#cat /etc/HOSTNAME
smoothwall.internal

#route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Ifce
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

Hope I have given you guys all the information you need.

Thanks...

[snowdog]

Just a shot in the dark here, try switching the ends of the crossover cable. I remember having this kinda prob back in the day getting two Win98 boxes hooked up with a crossover cable. Switched the cable around, and voila, two C drives available to the whole 'net! LOL To all Windows users, don't share drives, just folders!

[Bull Terrier]

Thanks anyway Snowdog.
It didn't work.
Sounds like you had a bit of crap between the connection there.

[Bull Terrier]

Thanks for the help guys.
Turns out it was a faulty bloody NIC in one of the machines.

[lynch]

Thanks for letting us know.
lynch