On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 05:18 -0700, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 7/6/05, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > I seriously suspect it's a NIC issue. Dlink is using realtek 8139 > > driver yes? This one has cause me un-due pain. > > > > To be sure.. switch the cables or switch the IPs (better) > > I'm not sure what's meant by switching the cables. either arrakis > eth0 or arrakis eth1 is connected to the hub, never both > simultaneously. pardon if that wasn't clear. No it wasn't :-) > > the IP's are entirely arbitrary, how would switching the IP address > for arrakis eth0 and eth1 change anything I initially assumed it was because of the connection and One IP worked and the other didn't > > ... > > Why is there no default route?? > > what's a default route? seriously :) $route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.83.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 172.16.124.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8 192.168.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 loopback 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.10.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 The default route is to tell the interface which eth to send the packets to. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 21:18:02 up 2 days, 1:05, 5 users, load average: 0.55, 0.97, 0.79
