On Sun, 4 May 2003 22:32:00 -0400 stevej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hey- > > I am having problems getting my RH 8 machine to connect to the > internet. It is a PII 300MHz, with 2 3com 3C905CX network cards, one > for the internal network, and one for external. The server is an > email/ftp/web server and is acting as a firewall/router for all the > other computers in the house. I have been running this configuration > succesfully with RH 8 and earlier versions for about two years. > Rececntly, I wanted to make some major changes to what was on the > server, and the way it was configured so I reformatted the hd, and > reinstalled RH 8. After the reinstall, I couldn't get the server to > connect to the internet. I was able to ping my gateway, but thats as > far as I can get. When I try to ping my DNS servers, I get the error: > "connect: Network is unreachable" I went in and edited the > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file and made sure all the > values were correct. I even tried taking out the PCI cards and > reseating them. Nothing has worked. If anyone could be of > assistance, that would be great. Thanks. > > -Steve I've had similar problems before. It had nothing to do with using 2 of the same cards usually, though that was part of the problem once. I'd suggest trying the easy one first. Swap cables on the boards, restart networking and see what happens. I'm guessing you have them using separate IPs for separate networks, not separate IPs on the same network. I'm also guessing they may have stole each other's address. Since you didn't say and maybe don't know, that's all I can do with it is guess. This would confirm or kill that idea at least. A solution I used to have to use, up until about 7.1, was to shutdown, remove boards, boot, let kudzu delete settings. Then I'd shut down, insert one board, boot and let kudzu configure it as eth0. Then repeat for eth1. This might not solve things either. But it always worked for me (barring a bad NIC) when I ran into similar problems. It even helped in the one instance that I used the same type card for different networks, right after I put it in because one NIC went bad. -- Chaos, panic and disorder -- my work here is done. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
