At 07:25 AM 12/5/2006 -0500, James Knott wrote:
M Harris wrote:
On Monday 04 December 2006 20:48, eharrison@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
The connection is through a cable modem. I didn't try pinging the boxes back and forth.
Make sure that your internal network is working first, then outbound.
BTW, what setting would keep the router from forwarding the linux packets?
That depends on the router. Mine is another Linux box through a shylink switch to the internal net, and nic to the outside... is your router home-made (linux box, other) or is it a hardware package like the
linksys, or
other?
If the box passes packets from Windows, it should also do so for Linux. There's no such thing as "Linux packets". The problem is either routing or DNS resolution in the system with the problem. If you can ping by IP address, but not host name, it's DNS. If you can't by IP either, it's routing. If you can't even ping a local IP, then it's some configuration issue with the NIC. A useful tool to find out what the problem is, is Ethereal.
I've been following this thread for a while, and one thing that hasn't been mentioned, is incompatibility of Linux with the Ethernet "card" in the machine. This machine has a Broadcom ethernet connection built into the MOBO, and Linux 10.0 apparently doesn't like it. Whatever is in the other computer, Linux likes fine. (I'm almost sure that SuSE 8.2 worked with the Broadcom components, but that's quite a while ago, and I don't even think I have a disk for that anymore, to test it out.) --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org