thnxs .
More Info that was required is:
ping 127.0.0.1 and ping to the ip of the machine does succeed.
Ping from machines in the network does not succeed.
route -n returns:
Destination GW mask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
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
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
indeed 192.168.0.254 is the GW (and ping to 192.168.0.254 does not succeed even physically other machines on the same hub may ping it successfully) regards sting
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