[ale] Networking Problems

[Michael A. Smith]

	The fact that you can ping your computer from your computer tells me that
the loopback works.  This doesn't necessarily mean your network card is
working.  You might want to run ifconfig -a to see if its really working.
When you run it, you should see a listing for lo which has an address of
127.0.0.1 and another listing(sorry, I am on a sun box right now) maybe eth0
that has your ip address.  If this is true, it sounds like a gateway or
routing problem.  Since you are not using dns, you will have to set up a
hosts file and you will need to set your routing file(I think its
routed.conf) to hosts, dns.  My guess is your network card is the
culprit.......

-----Original Message-----
 From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 6:47 AM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] Networking Problems


    This is basically a continuation of the first email I sent.  The
problem basically boils down to how to get Redhat 5.2 to interact on a
peer to peer network consisting of win95 machines.  I can ping my
computer from my computer, but I can not ping the linux box from another
workstation nor can I ping another workstation.  We do not use DNS,
bootp or dhcp.  Everyone is assigned a static ip.  No outside
connections like the Internet.  There are 3 offices connected via a
router/isdn, but that is a matter to tackle once this is done.  Where
can I look to try to figure this out?  It's got to be something simple I
am overlooking.

        Ryan