Ubuntu 6 network problem

[ben darby]

* brian (thefergies at bigfoot.com) wrote:
> Clint Tinsley wrote:
> >Another command to check is ifconfig (minumum of two interfaces should be 
> >listed):
> >desktop:/etc# ifconfig
> >eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:76:58:D4:11
> >          inet addr:172.30.0.68  Bcast:172.30.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:76ff:fe58:d411/64 Scope:Link
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:2222 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >          TX packets:2176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >          RX bytes:1847891 (1.7 MiB)  TX bytes:450655 (440.0 KiB)
> >          Interrupt:185 Base address:0xd800
> >
> >
> Thank you Clint. Sorry, I haven't got a clue what a dig is, or what the 
> results mean to me. No I can't ping out to anywhere. ifconfig gives me 
> eth0 and lo but eth0 shows 0 RX packets, and 0 TX packets. That means 
> nothing's connecting to anywhere, so no ping responses. That's about the 
> limit of my understanding of this matter. I'd like to get the thing back 
> onto the net so I can google and search ubuntu forums and learn a bit 
> more. Right now it just won't go anywhere. Seems like the updates have 
> screwed things up somewhat. Any other ideas?
> Thanks again

are you using DHCP or a static IP? does the line that starts with inet
addr: exist and does it have an IP compatible with your LAN? what is the
output of route -n? contents of /etc/network/interfaces? if your using
dhcp whats the output of sudo dhclient eth0? is the "link" light lit on
your NIC/switch/hub? output of "dmesg | grep eth" post these outputs to
give more info to solve your problem.

-- 
ben darby <ben at cvrse.com>
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