On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 23:58, Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, "Randy Perkins" <randyperkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > now i will try to help some more :) > > if you type 'ifconfig' > > do you show any packets sent > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:4E:42:71 > inet addr:192.168.0.1 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:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5760 (5.6 Kb) > Interrupt:5 > well this makes me think that: 1) your network card is up and running 2) you have sent out 30 packets of data, more than likely trying to ping another host 3) no packets came back. so now how about these: 1) do the other machines have ip addresses 192.168.0.x where x < 255 and not 1 2) do the other machines have netmask of 255.255.255.0 3) can the other machines on the network ping each other ? 4) do you use a hub/router that has lights that can be used for troubleshooting. 5) can you successfully 'ping localhost' hope this helps randy
