WINS has nothing to do with whether or not Linux can ping something. Can
you ping your default gateway (router)?
If that doesn't work, can you ping yourself? Can you somehow get the
output of ifconfig into an email for the list?
- Herman
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Vicky Clarke wrote:
->I have a SuSE 8 machine running on a LAN whose only nameserver is an NT machine doing WINS and DHCP. I've set the machine up a static IP address because DHCP didn't seem to be working when I checked it using ifconfig (I've also set the relevant static mapping up in WINS). I am on the same LAN segment as the WINS server. However, although ifconfig gives me what looks like a plausible working interface, no other machine on the network can ping the SuSE box (request timed out), and when I try to ping anything else from the SuSE machine I get a message much like:
->
->pinging <remote address> from