Home network redhat to debian ?

[russ pitman <russ@tasman.net.au>]

	I have two boxes networked,this one (arjay) and another (oriole)
which is running mandrake 7.1
	When running RH 6.2 on oriole I can telnet from either box ok,but I
cannot get the configuration for debian to work.

	My understanding is that Deb./etc/network/interfaces corresponds to
RH 6.2./etc/sysconfig/network and that all other filenames are the same in
both systems.	
	
	When I first did the setup telnetting from arjay worked properly
but from oriole I was getting "connection refused". For other reasons 
I installed a postfix upgrade (apt-get install from unstable) yesterday and
today 'telnet oriole'  gets "trying 192.168.1.2" and nothing, and from
oriole to arjay the same.? 
	Apt installed about six files,but i can't remember them,surely
upgrading postfix shouldn't screw up networking?
	The system in arjay is potato.
	 
	So I must be missing something.
  
Here are the relevant files
In Redhat
/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=false
HOSTNAME=arjay
DOMAINNAME=.rjp.home
IPADDRESS=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
GATEWAY=

In Debian  
/etc/network/interfaces
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.1
network 192.168.1.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway ""
hostname arjay
domainname .rjp.home
networking yes

In Debian
/etc/networks
localnet 127.0.0.0
eth0 192.168.1.0
	All other files are the same on both boxes. What am I doing wrong?
 	
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