LARTC - Jan 2001 - Can't ping another machine.

Dear All,

 I''m a newbie to Linux and I''m not sure if this problem is
appropriate to
this list, if not, my apologies to the list, however I am beginning to
beleive this is a routing problem.

I''m trying to get TCP/IP running on my system, I have a DLINK 530TX,
Linux
says it running ok, I''m
currently running Corel 1.2 previously Mandrake 7.1 which had exactly the
same result (thought I''d try another distrib). 

The box can ping itself, but nothing else. 

I have the Linux box set as follows: 

Ip Addr 192.168.1.1 
Netmask 255.255.255.0 
Gateway 192.168.1.2 

I have a win2k machine connected via a crossover cable that works fine (I
can connect the to machines OK when I boot the Linux box into
Windows 98 or 2000). 

The win2k has TCP/IP set as follows 

Ip Addr 192.168.1.2 
Netmask 255.255.255.0 
NO gateway. 

If I try and ping the linux box from WIn2k I get Timeouts. 

IF I try to ping the win2k machine from Linux I get no error messages just
100% packet loss. 

ifconfig -a shows as follows: 

lo Link encap:Local Loopback 
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 
RX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
Collisions:0 

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:07:2F:34 
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
TX packets:7 errors:201 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
Collisions:0 
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6500 

Any help anyone can give would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:21:50PM -0000, Mark Tiller wrote:
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:07:2F:34 
> inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 
> RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
> TX packets:7 errors:201 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
> Collisions:0 
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6500 
> 
> Any help anyone can give would be much appreciated.
I think you might have 10/100 mbit autonegotiation problems. Try forcing
either end to use a setting. 

If that doesn''t work, run tcpdump -i eth0 under Linux to see if any
traffic
comes by.

Regards,

bert

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