[mxr618]

My new distro won't ping my Mac, but it sees the PCs on the network just fine. Samba works for the PCs.

[root@smithers root]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
[root@smithers root]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:79:1C:BD
inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:621 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:219823 (214.6 Kb) TX bytes:52130 (50.9 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1000

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:5068 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5068 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:346896 (338.7 Kb) TX bytes:346896 (338.7 Kb)


The weirdness is compounded by the fact that the Mac can see an older linux server on the network just fine.

Argh!

Anybody have any ideas?

Tom