Re: routing question

[shock <shock@virtual-attorney.com>]

* Michael Heldebrant (hmike@portalofevil.com) spake thusly:
> 
> I am guessing that the problem must be on the interfaces on
> the debian machine.  What does ifconfig on the debian machine show?

# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:F0:57:C9:AF
          inet addr:192.168.1.99  Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:228510 (223.1 Kb) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x7000

# route -ee
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface    MSS   Window irtt
localnet        *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0     40    0      0
default         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0     40    0      0

# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
 
# The loopback interface
# automatically added when upgrading
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
  
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian
# installation
# (network, broadcast and gateway are optional)
# automatically added when upgrading
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
         address 192.168.1.99
         netmask 255.255.255.0
         network 192.168.1.0
         broadcast 192.168.1.255
         gateway 192.168.1.254
 
> Your previous email had no auto eth0 line in your
> /etc/network/interfaces listed nor a lo stanza.  Perhaps the interface
> is just not up?

sorry about that.  the previous post didn't include the entire
interface file.  above is the complete file.

the interface /is/ up, because i can successfully gateway to the DSL
modem.  i just can't see 192.168.1.10 on machine "a" and machine "a"
can't see this box.
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