[ILUG] why can't my pc access other computers through its network card?

[raoul duke]

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 01:51:26PM +0100, Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 1 May 2004, raoul duke wrote:
> 
> > iface eth1 inet static
> > address 192.168.0.1
> > netmask 255.255.255.0
> >
> > any help, pointers, suggestions would be greatly appreciated, cheers!
> 
> At a random guess, the router is giving eth0 a 192.168.0.x address as
> well, at which point you have two NICs on the same subnet, and the second
> to be added will mess up the routing table to the first.

the strange this is that i've had these settings in place for a few months,
it was only last week when the problem occured.

> 
> The "Operation not permitted" for ping sounds like a firewall.

hmm... strange, i never messed with any firewall settings. the only
firewall settings that are in place are from the package ipmasq.

here's the output of route -n:
root [~] route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0


> 
> run /sbin/ifconfig to see what the configs for eth0 and 1 are.

here are the eth0 and eth1 bits of the ifconfig output:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:5A:8D:27:10
          inet addr:192.168.1.34  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:20
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6570 (6.4 KiB)  TX bytes:5096 (4.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc400

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:88:17:E7:92
          inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:12410 (12.1 KiB)  TX bytes:42 (42.0 b)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000