Re: simple ping; pinging 101

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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.

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