I have just installed suse 9.1 and am unable to ping my network. Is there a setting which needs to changed. I am able to ping the windows machines from another windows machine but not linux. Thanks in advance Barry
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:15:00 +1200
Barry Rumsey
I have just installed suse 9.1 and am unable to ping my network. Is there a setting which needs to changed. I am able to ping the windows machines from another windows machine but not linux. Make sure your interface is set up. Go into YaST/Network Devices/Network Card, If the card is detected and configured: click on changes. That should select eth0. Then click on edit. set up your IP address. If you have a static IP address you need to set up your gateway. Do that through the routing tab. Click on Next and Finish.
Once you do that check the following:
1. Open up a terminal window.
2. Run /sbin/ifconfig
You should see your IP address.
3. ping -c1 <your gateway IP address>
This should be successful. If not, there might be a problem with your
card or the module for that card.
4. ping -c1 <a local machine IP address>
Ping a system on your local net. If not, then run netstat -nr and
forward the results back to this list.
5. ping -c1 <an external IP address maybe a name server address>
If not successful, again, your routing table may be a problem, do a
netstat -nr and send the results here,
6. ping -c1 <an external host by name>
If not successful, then your name servers need to be set manually. You
can set them through YaST of edit them into /etc/resolv.conf.
The main thing we want to isolate where the problem could be and go from
there. I generally stay away from looking at the scripts since YaST is
the preferred system admin tool for people who are not yet Linux
experts. The ifconfig, netstat, and ping commands are basic networking
commands that most users should know.
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Jerry Feldman
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