[Wylug-help] Starting a network connection

[Kevin Barrass]

If you ping an IP address and this fails might be worth checking your
arp cache using /sbin/arp -a to see if it resolves the IP to a layer 2
address.
Ping your own IP address aswell to check the IP stack is up and working.
If you type ifconfig eth0 do you see any TX and RX packets on the hosts
you are trying to ping from/to.
Also check that all the hosts on your network are on the same network
i.e. check the network mask and subnet is consistent through your
network.

Regards

Kev

-----Original Message-----
From: wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk
[mailto:wylug-help-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jim Jackson
Sent: 16 July 2007 11:58
To: john at bopa.co.uk
Cc: WYLUG HELP
Subject: Re: [Wylug-help] Starting a network connection




On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 john at bopa.co.uk wrote:

> I've run ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 but can't 
> ping anything else on the network.

Are you trying to ping by name or IP address? If you've tried by name,
try by IP address. It _might_ be that your /etc/resolv.conf file doesn't
contain a valid name server, and/or your /etc/hosts file does not have
local lan entries or similar.


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