Re: 1.3.1 Upgrading Probs
Peter Weiss wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> maybe you can help -- I didn't expect these problems when upgrading to
> 1.3.1. the upgrade itself went smoothly but now I'm unable to use any of
> my networking interfaces:
>
> The network devices (eth0 and lo0) are set up correctly, I can do a ping
> but all other services like telnet/ rlogin and ftp return a "connection
> refused error" after a timeout.
>
> The netdevices look as they should:
> # ifconfig
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> RX packets:59351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:59351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>
> eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C0:56:5F:A4
> inet addr:193.96.166.51 Bcast:193.96.166.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:31 dropped:0 overruns:0
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x250 Memory:d0000-d4000
Note that TX show 31 errors, no packets?! This would seem to indicate
a problem. Are you *sure* you weren't APPENDing ethernet params to your
lilo settings? Perhaps you have one of those adapters which has two
different media and have to choose the media by passing an
'ether=blah,blah,eth0' to the kernel.
> # route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 193.96.166.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 1 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 2 lo
>
> The Gateway addresses sound quite strange to me. Maybe this causes the
> problem?
>
> I'm starting the network services with a slightly modified version of the
> standard network script:
>
> # Configure the loopback device.
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo
>
> # Configure the ethernet device or start SLIP/PPP below.
> IPADDR="193.96.166.51"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> NETWORK="193.96.166.0"
> BROADCAST="193.96.166.255"
> GATEWAY=""
>
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> /sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK}
> [ ! -z "$GATEWAY" ] && /sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY}
>
> Having spend over a day with upgrading I'm frustrated and would appreciate
> any help. BTW: The script worked with no probs and on the same hardware
> with 1.2.x debian.
>
> It seems to be no library or configuration problem on the rlogin's side,
> cause when I'm connected to my ISP all services work.
>
> Thanks -- Peter
>
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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