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Name: matpoh
Date: February 19, 2003 at 14:05:16 Pacific
Subject: Destination Host Unreachable
OS: RH8
CPU/Ram: AMD900/512
Comment:

I am in the process of setting up the network card on my dual boot RedHat 8 machine and am at a loss.

I am using DEC 21040 ethernet card that can ping itself, but cannot ping anything else. I know its not the cable or port because everything works fine on the windows side (go figure)
Whenever I try to ping a different machine, It times-out and has the message Destination host unreachable.

Anyway, here is the output of my ifcfg_eth0

Device=eth0
bootproto=none
broadcast=*.*.223.255
ipaddr=*.*.223.105
netmask=255.255.255.0
network=*.*.223.0
onboot=yes
userauth=no
peerdns=no
gateway=*.*.223.254
type=ethernet


-My dns server is *.*.226.1
-My ethernet card is using irq 11 and is not sharing with anything else.
-I think the driver my card is using is something called Tulip


Any suggestions are greatly appreciated



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Response Number 1
Name: givetomeabreak
Date: February 19, 2003 at 14:38:24 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

From the prompt, type: setup

Check under the firewall section that eth0 is a trusted device.

Also, at the prompt, type:ifconfig eth0 up


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Response Number 2
Name: frankie
Date: February 19, 2003 at 14:40:07 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Can you ping a IP address of a system?
Check your hosts file and see if all systems are listed. Also in root directory check/or update the .rhost file.
Also save your securetty file in /etc as securetty.ORG


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Response Number 3
Name: matpoh
Date: February 20, 2003 at 07:03:55 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

I think I am getting closer. I tried using setup and eth0 was not a trusted device. Every time I set it, after closing the box, it forgets the setting.

I cannot ping any machine except the card itself.


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