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Re: eth between two computers



Am Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2000 11:29 schrieb Bill Jonas:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:45:52AM -0600, Matthias Schulz wrote:
> > Anyone else a tip for me?
>
> You don't need to run the route commands for this.
>
> The output of your route display:
> > ROOT> route
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface 192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0     
> >   0 eth0
>
> Note the Detination column.  This, combined with the Genmask column, means
> that this row is for IP traffic for 192.168.0.anything.  The '*' in the
> Gateway column means that no gateway is needed, that this is just a local
I thought so, but I was not sure.
> interface.  (You see which one, of course, in the Iface column.)  Have you
> tried running your program yet?  You said you could ping one computer from
> the other, so I suspect all is well.
Yes I can ping them, but not telnet nor nfs-mount bring anything back. They 
are just stuck. The strange thing is, over plip everything worked fine (and 
still does).

> If you don't want to refer to the machines by numbers, stick a couple of
> lines in your /etc/hosts file on each host:
> 192.168.0.1	machine1
> 192.168.0.3	machine2

Yes, I did.

Matth



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