Re: setup second nic on debian/powerpc not succeeding
On Friday 27 February 2004 12:58, Brian Brazil shoved this is my mailbox:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:25:52PM +0100, Joey Macao wrote:
...
> > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:02:C9:BA:CC
> > inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:B3:1D:31
> > inet addr:192.168.1.8 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
...
> > however pinging to 192.168.1.8 gives me: "Destination Host Unreachable"
>
> This is a routing issue. Could you do a 'route -n' and post the results?
..
> Also just noticed your broadcast address is wrong. Should be
> 192.168.1.255 for that subnet/netmask.
Brian is right, your broadcast address is incorrect, so probably the ARP
request never reaches the other network card.
I find this strange, I seem to remember that if you supply an IP address and a
network mask it will calculate the broadcast address for you.
Did you force it to use this broadcast address?
joost
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