Local Network Problem

[Eberhard Roloff]

Nils Kassube wrote:
[...]
>> dhenson at Mars-laptop:~$ ifconfig
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:B9:76:09:3C
>>           inet addr:192.168.1.53  Bcast:192.168.1.255 
>>
>> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:7E:62:59:16
>>           inet addr:192.168.1.53  Bcast:192.168.1.255 
> 
> Don't use two interfaces with the same IP address. That can't work. Please 
> note: An IP address defines an interface, not a machine. Probably this is 
> the reason why your laptop can't talk to anybody.

exactly!
> 
>> dhenson at Mars-laptop:~$ cat /etc/hosts
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>> 192.168.1.51 Earth-svr.site Earth-svr
>> 192.168.1.52 Venus-ws.site Venus-ws
>> 192.168.1.53 Mars-laptop.site Mars-laptop [.site] <--this you can delete for reasons of consitency
   192.168.1.54 Mars-laptop-wlan.site Mars-laptop-wlan

(I am assuming that you will assign .54 to your Laptop wlan interface, now.
I am also assuming that you want to get to your laptop via wlan, as
well. If not, skip this last line)
>>
>> The original install used DHCP but I am tryng to switch to static.
>>

If you do not want to use dhcp at all (imho that would easily make your
mess disappear), then you might use THIS hosts file as a template that
you can copy to any machine on your network.

>> My Linksys router/switch has a firewall. I use that and my machines
>> have their firewalls turned off.
> 
> I don't see an entry for your router in any of your /etc/hosts files. You 
> should add a line
> 
> 192.168.1.1 router.site router
This does not do any harm, but afaik it is not needed, since the default
gateway should be stored within your network interface configuration
(/etc/sysconfig/network/....).
> 
> to each of the files (I assume it has the address 192.168.1.1). Otherwise 
> you can't talk to the internet.

no, what benefit do you get from having a name instead of an ip address
of your router? Well, it is easier to ping, but this does not make your
connection to the internet work, if it did not work before, that is.

> 
> BTW: Why don't you want to use DHCP? It can make life so much easier. If 
> you just don't want to use the built-in DHCP server of the router you 
> could install a DHCP server e.g. on your Earth-svr machine.
> 
well spoken!!! Imho you should think about it

Eberhard