Eth1 problems again [ Solved - for the moment]

david walcroft d_j_w46 at bigpond.net.au
Thu Oct 4 05:00:59 UTC 2007


Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:59 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>     
>>>   
>>>       
>> Eth0 is dhcp,Ethe1 is static 192.168.0.1
>>     
>>> What does "ifconfig eth1" say?
>>>   
>>>       
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ ifconfig eth1
>> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:14:1B:09
>>           inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe14:1b09/64 Scope:Link
>>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>           RX bytes:747 (747.0 b)  TX bytes:578 (578.0 b)
>>           Interrupt:22 Base address:0x8c00
>>     
> ----
> nope - ip address doesn't show...there's an error
> ----
>   
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>     
>>> What does "route" say?
>>>   
>>>       
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ route
>> Kernel IP routing table
>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
>> Iface
>> 121.208.32.0    *               255.255.248.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
>> 169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
>> default         121.208.32.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>     
>>> What is in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1?
>>>   
>>>       
>> # Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
>> DEVICE=eth1
>> ONBOOT=yes
>> BOOTPROTO=none
>> HWADDR=00:e0:4c:14:1b:09
>> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>> IPADDR=192.168.0.1
>> GATEWAY=192.168.0.0
>> TYPE=Ethernet
>> USERCTL=no
>> IPV6INIT=no
>> PEERDNS=yes
>>     
> ----
> GATEWAY is a bad address... that's a network address
>
> comment out GATEWAY...you already have a GATEWAY address per above
> (121.208.32.1)
> comment out PEERDNS...that's for BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> comment out BOOTPROTO
>
> after you change these settings...
>
> try...
>
> ifup eth1
> ----
>   
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo ping -c 5 192.168.0.2
>> PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
>> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
>> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
>> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
>> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
>>
>> What do I do to get ping to work  and is it part of this problem overall.
>> 192.168.0.2 is on the other end of my crossover cable
>>     
> ----
> should work
>
> Craig
>
>   
Thanks Craig It's up and running and 192.168.0.2 is on the net
But pinging only provides me with lost packets to 192.168.0.2
I can ping 192.168.0.1 and 121.208.32.1 my gateway.

Thanks a lot Craig
   
   david




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