[ILUG] LAN connection woes

[Matthew Sammon]

Hi,
I've just installed RedHat7.1 and am attempting to hook up to the
local LAN.  The box previously had Win2K and could talk to other
hosts.  Before installing RedHat I tried installing Debian2.3 and
after being asked to enter network config details was
able to ping other hosts on VT2 (the Deb install later bombed).  So I
assume my problems aren't hardware related.

Under RedHat I can't ping any other host.  Here's a listing of the two
main sysconfig files:

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=pc1173
GATEWAY=134.226.32.254
GATEWAYDEV=eth0

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=134.226.255.255
IPADDR=134.226.47.46
NETMASK=255.255.0.0
NETWORK=134.226.0.0
ONBOOT=yes

This config yields:

# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:05:0F:A2:82  
      inet addr:134.226.47.46  Bcast:134.226.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
      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 
      Interrupt:9 Base address:0x3400 

lo    Link encap:Local Loopback  
      inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
      UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
      RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

# /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway        Genmask       Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
134.226.0.0 *              255.255.0.0   U     0      0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0   *              255.0.0.0     U     0      0 0 lo
default     134.226.32.254 0.0.0.0       UG    0      0 0 eth0
 
The weird thing is that the other Linux box in the room returns the
exact same (apart from its IP address and RX packets=0) for the four
commands above BUT it CAN ping other hosts.

Does anyone have an idea as to where to look for problems?  RedHat
originally used the e100 module for the NIC, but I changed this to the
eepro100 module as this was what worked in the Debian install.

I'm stumped, and reading the relevant sections of NAG and Net-Howto
didn't improve the situation.

-- 
Matthew Sammon <m at banjaxed.net>