On 30-Dec-98 pcola@iname.com wrote:
Could someone help me out? I get a "network unreachable" whenever I try to connect on the network. I have a 3Com Etherlink card and I once had a network connection successfully connect to another computer but since my new installation I get this error.
There are a lot of possibilities. Try the following checks:
1. Enter the command "ifconfig". As well as "lo" and "dummy0" you should
also see an "eth0". If you don't, then the ethernet driver was not
started up successfully for your card.
2. Enter the command "route". You should again see, under the last column
("Iface"), "lo", "dummy0" and "eth0". If "eth0" is missing, then the
"route add ... " command failed on initialisation.
3. Try "ping localhost" and "ping nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn" where "nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn"
is the numeric IP address of the machine you are at.
The above are basic tests that the local hardware and software are
working. If they pass, then have a look at the other machine. Is it, for
instance, on the same net (e.g. "192.168.0.0" or whatever the network IP
address is) as the local machine? If not, are the gateways OK? Etc.
Good luck,
Ted.
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