Re: absurdly simple LAN problem
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 15 Sep 2005, Thomas Adam wrote:
> >
> > --- Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and
> > > googling hasn't helped.
tooo much effort :-) ... but good .. thanx for trying so hard
> > > I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and
> > > ADSL
> > > modem. Both machines reach the internet without problems, one via a
> > > cable link to the modem, the other via a wireless link to the
> > > router.
did you configure the router ??
> > > to the other though I can ping localhost on each. Turning off the
> > > firewall (shorewall) does not help.
ping localhost is 100% guaranteed to work ... as long as 127.0.0.1 is in
/etc/hosts and you do use /etc/hosts in your /etc/resolv.conf
- ping of it's own ip# will always work evenwith the ethernet
cable disconnected
what is your contents of /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf
> ac:~:$ route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.0.1 is presumably your router thru which you expect to get out
> ifconfig -a:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:2B:02:32:FB
> inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
good ... your ip# is *.20
> For laptop:
>
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
good ... your gateway is the same *.1
> ac:/usr/share/doc/shorewall:$ ifconfig -a
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:1B:DE:4B:CF
bad .. this does NOT have an ip# assigned to it ...
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> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:96:44:B5:A6
> inet addr:192.168.0.22 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
good ... this is *.22
> wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-40-96-44-B5-A6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
> BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:2312 Metric:1
bad ... this does NOT have an ip# assigned to it
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c ya
alvin
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