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Re: strange message about eth0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick A. Fikouras)
Mon Nov 16 07:38:26 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:24:10 +0000
From: "Nick A. Fikouras" <nick@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
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Ramon Gandia wrote:
> Sudarsan Vasudevan wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> > I have a 3com 3c509b combo ethernet card. I installed
> > linux on that machine. I am able to ping myself but not any other machines
> > in my LAN or the outside world.
>
> Since its a Combo card, are you sure that the card is using
> the right interface? I believe the "default" is the COAX port.
>
It sounds like a netmask problem to me. If you have tcpdump try:
tcpdump -i eth0 and then ping an outside node.
If you can see any outgoing packets, then it seems like the netmask has been set
incorrectly. In this case ask the local admin about the network configuration.
Good luck,
nick
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