[plug] Routing problem (I think)

[Wayne Pringle-Wood]

Can you ping the loopback adapter 127.0.0.1 and the ip address of the rh
6.2 box, it may be that you have set up the ip address on the wrong
adapter, what is ifconfig telling you ?

wayne

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Andrew Furey wrote:

> List,
> 
> I have 2 machines on a local network (along with some
> others). One is RH6.0 and has been correctly set up
> for several months. The other is a RH6.2 box which I'm
> just putting together.
> 
> They both connect to the 192.168.0.0 subnet and have
> 192.168.0.1 as their gateway.
> 
> Now, when I try to connect to a machine on the network
> from the newly setup one (which is 192.168.0.5), it
> can't seem to connect.
> 
> Ping comes up with "destination host unreachable",
> traceroute has similar errors.
> 
> Both have hostnames, routing, etc set up identically
> except for the ip address and hostname of that
> machine. Hence ifconfig, route, etc give identical
> outputs (except for IP).
> 
> Any ideas what I've forgotten?
> 
> TIA, Andrew
> 
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