On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 04:40 -0700, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > two computers, arrakis and caladan, are > connected with some standard RJ45 Cat 5e cable > and a hub. arrakis can ping caladan from eth0. > arrakis cannot ping caladan from eth1. > > what's wrong with arrakis eth1, please? > > I'm 99.999% sure it's not a hardware problem. > eth0 is built-in to the motherboard, > eth1 is a D-Link NIC. > 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) > > arrakis eth0 192.168.0.100 > arrakis eth1 192.168.0.101 > caladan eth0 192.168.0.102 > [root@arrakis init.d]# route > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > eth0 > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 > eth1 > 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 > eth1 Why is there no default route?? >