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Re: Network unreachable....



on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:12:11AM -0500, Andy Laurence (andy@themidwestgroup.com) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> More problems with my first Linux box (something tells me I should
> have tried Mandrake to get going).  After getting Perl, PHP, Apache
> and ProFTPd running, I thought all was well.  Unfortunately, the
> network has failed for no apparent reason.  I realised I couldn't FTP
> to i, so I tried to ping the gateway.  This resulted in 'network
> unreachable', so I looked at ifconfig - loopback (127.0.0.1) was
> there, but no eth0.
> 
> I checked /etc/network/interfaces which showed eth0 to be correctly
> setup.  I then ran ifdown followed by ifup.  Again, no change.  I
> tried a reboot in vain, but nothing.  Is there something else I can
> try?  I don't know where drivers are kept or how to re-install them
> (what I'd do in an MS OS).  TIA

Post execution and output of the following commands:

    $ lsof
    $ ifconfig
    $ route

Sounds like your network cards aren't installed or configured.

Might try:

    $ /etc/init.d/networking stop
    $ /etc/init.d/networking start

...then retry commands above.

Cheers.

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