From: carlj@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com (Carl Johnson) Subject: Re: networking with pl12 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 05:35:46 GMT
I have been following all of this, as well as read the NET-2-FAQ, but I
still haven't been able to get the networking to work since I upgraded
to Slackware 1.01 (SLS 1.03 had ext2fs problems). I have a very simple
setup: I just have 2 computers I link together with thinlan, with no
other network. This works under MSDOS with NCSA, and also worked under
0.99pl9 (SLS 1.01). I can get the loopback working, but I can't get any
connection to my other computer.
Everything looks OK until I try the route add, and then I get the
infamous 'Network is unreachable' message. After executing the
following commands:
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add 127.0.0.1
ifconfig eth0 1.1.1.2
route add 1.0.0.0 # this is in my /etc/networks file
route add 1.1.1.2 # I get network is unreachable here
ifconfig gives the following:
lo IP ADDR 127.0.0.1 BCAST 127.255.255.255 NETMASK 255.0.0.0
MTU 2000 METRIC 0 POINT-TO-POINT ADDR 0.0.0.0
FLAGS: 0x0049 ( UP LOOPBACK RUNNING )
eth0 IP ADDR 1.1.1.2 BCAST 1.255.255.255 NETMASK 255.0.0.0
MTU 1500 METRIC 0 POINT-TO-POINT ADDR 0.0.0.0
FLAGS: 0x0043 ( UP BROADCAST RUNNING )
and route gives the following:
Kernel routing table
Destination net/address Gateway address Flags RefCnt Use Iface
1.0.0.0 * UN 0 3 eth0
127.0.0.1 * UH 0 18 lo
With this I can ping to 127.0.0.1 and 1.1.1.2, but I can't ping to the
other computer at 1.1.1.3.
The card is a WD8003, and I think it is being initialized properly at
boot. The kernel log messages are:
WD80x3 ethercard probe at 0x280: 00 00 C0 FF 88 15
eth0: WD8003-old using IRQ 9 with shared memory at 0x80000-0x81fff.
wd.c:v0.99-10 5/28/93 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)
If anybody has any ideas what I am doing wrong I would like to hear
them.
--Carl Johnson carlj@cv.hp.com