[ILUG] whitebox linux and networking

[Richard Eibrand]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:19:23 +0000 (GMT), Paul Jakma <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:

> sure? RH installs firewalling by default. 'service iptables stop' to
> make sure.

Yeah, disabled it in services,and ran 'service iptables stop' a number of 
times to be sure, to be sure

>> What am I missing if anything. Suggestions please?
>
> # ip address show

[reibrand at goa reibrand]$ /sbin/ip address show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
     inet 127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
     link/ether 00:60:08:46:34:9e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
     inet 192.168.0.3/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global eth0

> # ip route show
[reibrand at goa reibrand]$ /sbin/ip route show
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0  scope link
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0  scope link
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo  scope link
default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0


> something's wrong there.. double check iptables is stopped, then double 
> check your NIC, cable and hub/switch.

All of the above have been quadrupled checked. The exact same hw conf 
worked yesterday on Redhat 9 install. Same NIC, same hub, same cable... 
Mystery


> Eg, what does: # ethtool eth0  say?

[reibrand at goa reibrand]$ sudo /sbin/ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
No data available


Regards, R