[ILUG] odd NIC problem.

[Dave Airlie]

you don't have iptables or something blocking ping ...

Dave.

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, John McDonnell wrote:

> morning people,
> I'm having a bit of trouble with my home network. I bought a Realtek 8139
> card to replace a dodgy NE 2000 PCI clone. I can't ping to/from the new
> card. I downloaded the latest rtl8139 drivers from the scyld site and
> managed to get them installed happily. I can see activity lights on the
> hub for both ends of the ping. I've googled the night away and still no
> closer to a solution... any help appreciated.
>
> here's what ifconfig says:
> eth0 == Realtek 8029 using ne2k-pci
> eth1 == realtek 8139 using rtl8139
>
> I've masked parts of my external IP 'cos it's not important.
>
> [root at sockmonster johnmc]# /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:4B:02:6A:79
>           inet addr:X.Y.Z.74  Bcast:X.Y.Z.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:4085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:4422 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:2977095 (2.8 Mb)  TX bytes:633097 (618.2 Kb)
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:F4:44:0F:F5
>           inet addr:10.8.60.120  Bcast:10.8.63.255  Mask:255.255.224.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:970 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:185522 (181.1 Kb)  TX bytes:161232 (157.4 Kb)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe400
>
> pinging 10.8.60.100 gives the following in /var/log/messages:
>
> Feb 19 23:42:15 sockmonster kernel: IN=eth1 OUT=
> MAC=00:40:f4:44:0f:f5:00:50:04:5b:1e:66:08:00 SRC=10.8.60.100
> DST=10.8.60.120 LEN=84 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=25412 PROTO=ICMP
> TYPE=0 CODE=0 ID=55053 SEQ=0
>
>
> pinging from 10.8.60.100 causes:
>
> Feb 19 23:42:19 sockmonster kernel: IN=eth1 OUT=
> MAC=00:40:f4:44:0f:f5:00:50:04:5b:1e:66:08:00 SRC=10.8.60.100
> DST=10.8.60.120 LEN=84 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=25416 PROTO=ICMP
> TYPE=0 CODE=0 ID=55053 SEQ=1024
>
> again, any help appreciated
>
> johnmc.
>

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