[ILUG] Home Network Problems

[Adrian Smith]

Hi all

I'm having a spot of bother setting up what I thought would be a straight
forward network. I have two machines, each with a 3c509b nic, connected to a
3com 4 port hub. The problem is that under Linux I just can't get the two
machines to see each other. What confuses me even more is that everything
works fine under W95. Here's my setup..

Machine 1
Name: gateway
IP: 192.168.1.1
Mask: 255.255.255.0
No Gateway

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.1.1     *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo


Machine 2
Name: Racer
IP: 192.168.1.2
Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.1.2     *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default       192.168.1.1   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0


The arp tables are empty on both machines but even if I load them it doesn't
make a blind bit of difference. When I do a ping the hub shows packets are
been sent through it so....??
I'm using RH 6.0 on both machines. Kernel 2.2.5-15

Thanks very much for any help in advance.

Adrian