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Re: ThinkPad problem continues



On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:

> I can do:
> 
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.11
> route add 192.168.1.11 dev eth0
> 
> but that only lets me ping the machine by hostname or localhost.
> I cannot ping the other machine.

THat is the problem! It only has a route to the one host! Try this:
route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255

Then try to ping them.

You need to add a route for the net not just the one address.





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