networking curiosity

[Paul Sladen]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, david wrote:

Hello David (also in Britain),

> Four of the 5 machines took their IP addresses with no problem but one
> of them kept saying "network unreachable".

You mention you were giving them static IPs (*shudder*) rather than
DHCP'ing.  Is Machine No. 5 missing a default route (eg, accidently
misconfigured in the config file) and complaining when it can't do a DNS
lookup to the internet?  An incorrect netmask would probably yeild the the
same 'network unreachable' when trying to reach the local network.

What do the following print?

  /sbin/ifconfig eth0
  /sbin/route -n
  sudo /sbin/mii-tool eth0

	-Paul
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