From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton) Subject: Grrr! This networking is driving me nuts! Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 20:10:02 +0000
As the title suggests, I'm having a few networking problems. Up until
recently, I've had no problems at all running the pre-ALPHA SLIP code
with my 0.99.4 kernel with libc.so.4.3.2; all the net config files
are in the right place, and they all seem to have the right things in
them.
`Fine!' you might say, `So what's the problem?. Well, I'll tell you.
I recently set up another linux box with a similar network
configuration (0.99.7A, libc.so.4.3.3, with a different hostname & IP
address), and connected the two together using a couple of WD80x3
clones and some thinnet cable. And although both kernels can see both
cards, I can't for the life of me make them talk. I get plenty of
`network is unreachable' errors, but it seems to me that the code
isn't actually talking to the ethernet cards (at least, no lights
flash!). And yes, I've checked the network terminations etc.
If someone out there has overcome what seems to me to be a very basic and
fundamental configuration problem of some description, I'd be
extremely grateful to hear from you - preferably by mail, although I
may well send an account of my experiences to the maintainer of the
net-FAQ if it's something which isn't in there.
Thanks very much (in advance),
Alan