On 7/10/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > The ping target is in the same subnet? ... the setup is D-Link eth1 built-in eth0 192.168.0.2 ---| arrakis |--- 192.168.0.1 | | HUB | | | CALADAN |--- 192.168.0.3 > No, the zeroconf route entry is no problem. > Why do you want to delete eth0? ... it's not that I want to delete arrakis eth0 but that I want to isolate arrakis eth1. arrakis eth1 refers to the D-Link NIC. I want to ping from the D-Link NIC to caladan. [root@arrakis init.d]# [root@arrakis init.d]# pwd /etc/init.d [root@arrakis init.d]# whoami root [root@arrakis init.d]# date Mon Jul 11 06:29:27 IST 2005 [root@arrakis init.d]# echo "arrakis D-Link to hub to caladan" arrakis D-Link to hub to caladan [root@arrakis init.d]# echo "arrakis D-Link NIC is eth1" arrakis D-Link NIC is eth1 [root@arrakis init.d]# ./network restart Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ] Shutting down interface eth1: [ OK ] Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ] Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding: [ OK ] Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth1: [ OK ] [root@arrakis init.d]# ping 192.168.0.3 PING 192.168.0.3 (192.168.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable --- 192.168.0.3 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2999ms , pipe 4 [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 [root@arrakis init.d]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:A0:24:27 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e6ff:fea0:2427/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2338 (2.2 KiB) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:88:37:FA:22 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20d:88ff:fe37:fa22/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:51 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:7086 (6.9 KiB) TX bytes:2472 (2.4 KiB) Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:9469 (9.2 KiB) TX bytes:9469 (9.2 KiB) [root@arrakis init.d]# why can't I ping from the D-Link NIC on arrakis to the hub? I thought it was because of that last line in the route info, but apparently not. thanks, Thufir