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Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through



On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:30:28PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my
> 3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll
> respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or
> out.
> 
> any pointers are appreciated -- here's the output from several
> various related commands that i know about, so you who've
> travelled this road might be able to direct me in my efforts:
> 
> root@server# ifdown eth0 ; ifup eth0
> 
> root@server# ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:8C:82:CF:3B  
>           inet addr:208.251.253.83  Bcast:208.251.253.87  Mask:255.255.255.248
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 

Hi,
  maybe here you got an error. IIRC, your broadcast address must be
  208.251.253.255, and your Network Mask 255.255.255.0 if you have
  a class C internet address.

HTH,
  Rafael Sasaki



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