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Thread ID: 67350	2006-03-25 03:29:00	Suse Linux 10.0 networking	AndrewMercer (9663)	Press F1

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440547	2006-03-25 03:29:00	I'm trying to configure OpenSUSE 10.0 on an old Celeron connected to my home network. This has worked previously with Mandriva (although I have admittedly also changed my ADSL router also). Networking appears to be up and running - but I cannot ping my router (10.1.1.1) nor anything else on my network (I was trying to use my ADSL router as a gateway out to the internet). Pinging localhost is fine. Similarly, I can't ping the Linux PC from other machines on the network. The network lights on my router and network card are lit up - so I think there is a connection. I've also tried a couple of network cables - but result is the same each time. Does anyone have any suggestions of possible issues or things to look at.	AndrewMercer (9663)
440548	2006-03-25 03:40:00	Have you given your machine an IP address in the 10.x.x.x range? ifconfig will tell you. :D There's usually a simple cause.	Graham L (2)
440549	2006-03-25 05:12:00	IP addresses are all manually assigned (i.e. no DHCP). The network connection is configured as 10.1.1.6 Hence, I can ping 10.1.1.6 from the linux box - but pinging anything else just times out. Trying to ping 10.1.1.6 from my windows box times out also. I've also swapped the Network cards between both boxes for good measure - but still get the same result. My guess therefore is that there is a setting somewhere which is the problem. My other guess was that the problem was the firewall configuration - but even when this is disabled I get the same thing. As you say it probably is something simple though. Cheers	AndrewMercer (9663)
440550	2006-03-25 05:38:00	Does anyone have any suggestions of possible issues or things to look at. The firewall is probably on. Fire up YaST and turn it off for the moment (I'm not sure which one it is as my SUSE box is disconnected at the moment)	dolby digital (5073)
440551	2006-03-25 05:59:00	The firewall is probably on. Fire up YaST and turn it off for the moment (I'm not sure which one it is as my SUSE box is disconnected at the moment) Thanks for the suggestion. Have tried that also but no luck. :(	AndrewMercer (9663)
440552	2006-03-25 06:17:00	Just to clarify things, the linux box cannot ping the router, but the windows box can? Have you tried changing the port the ethernet cable is plugged into on the router? Have you tried running ifconfig as Graham suggested? Do this in a terminal window and post back here with the output.	Jen (38)
440553	2006-03-25 09:03:00	Does anyone have any suggestions of possible issues or things to look at. Try typing route add default 10.1.1.1 on the SuSE box. You should really use DHCP - your ADSL route should have a DHCP server.	vinref (6194)
440554	2006-03-26 06:13:00	Just to clarify things, the linux box cannot ping the router, but the windows box can? Have you tried changing the port the ethernet cable is plugged into on the router? Have you tried running ifconfig as Graham suggested? Do this in a terminal window and post back here with the output. Yup. I can't ping anything except for the Linux box itself. Everything else comes back Host Unreachable. See below: > ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:A1:1D:0E:51 inet addr:10.1.1.6 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::208:a1ff:fe1d:e51/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x9800 >dmesg | grep eth0 eth0: Davicom DM9102/DM9102A rev 64 at 00019800, 00:08:A1:1D:0E:51, IRQ 10. eth0: no IPv6 routers present SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.1.1.6 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=102 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=7 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=82 SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.1.1.6 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=102 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=8 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=82 SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.1.1.6 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=102 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=9 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=82 >ping 10.1.1.6 PING 10.1.1.6 (10.1.1.6) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.1.1.6: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.136 ms >ping 10.1.1.1 PING 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. From 10.1.1.6: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable I've tried everything from re-installs (several), swapping the network card with my WinXP box (both have the same card type), swapping cables etc. All with no luck so far. I found some SUSE documentation via Google saying that acpi should be set to off to present conflicts with other cards. Have done this also (even though I have no other cards) - also to no avail. Might try another Linux distro for the hell of it and see if I have any better luck.	AndrewMercer (9663)
440555	2006-03-26 06:36:00	Try typing route add default 10.1.1.1 on the SuSE box. You should really use DHCP - your ADSL route should have a DHCP server. 10.1.1.1 was set up as the default gateway on the network setup - which should be effectively the same thing. However, typing in on the command line responds as follows >route add default 10.1.1.1 SIOCADDRT: No such device You're probably right about DHCP. However, I went to manual IPs to ensure that my network printer was always 10.1.1.5 - which made the print setups just a little easier. Cheers	AndrewMercer (9663)
440556	2006-03-26 07:25:00	Not sure if this helps, but typing route at the command prompt also returns the following: >route Kernal IP routing table Destination___Gateway_____Genmask______Flags_Metri c_Ref ____Use_Iface 10.1.1.0______*__________255.255.255.0__U____0____ _0________0_eth0 link-local____*__________255.255.0.0____U____0_____0___ _____0_eth0 loopback______*__________255.0.0.0______U____0____ 0________0_lo default_______10.1.1.1___0.0.0.0________UG___0____ 0_________0_eth0	AndrewMercer (9663)
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