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Hi, Thank you guys for your help, I tried the commands suggested below and found out that I can actually ping machines on the same subnet. If my IP is: 1.1.20.30 I can ping all machines on 1.1.20.* however I cannot do that with their hostnames unless I hardcode the min the /etc/hosts file. I guess my error has to do with the hostname resolving. I think here we have a class B address: 1.1.*.* and our mask is: 255.255.0.0 What do I have to do to access the DNS Servers. I configured the machine in Yast to look at all three of them.

Happy new year everybody, -t

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On 30-Dec-98 pcola@iname.com wrote:

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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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