Quoting Hemminger, Jeffrey D. (JDHEMMINGER at stthomas.edu): > Hi All, > I'm a brand new user, and I'm charged with setting up 2 servers both running > RH7.2 on a very small private network (a development environment). I've > installed an email service on each, but I'm having trouble getting as much > as a ping between the two boxes. > I've modified /etc/hosts, /etc/host.conf, and /etc/sysconfig/network. I'm > using a generic, supported NIC, everything was working fine before I took it > off the University's network, eth0 seems ok, and I've checked the cables and > hub. > I'm looking for 1) Am I missing something obvious or did I modify a conf > file I wasn't supposed to? and/or 2) some simple troubleshooting ideas? > I've scoured the internet and several books (my manual is RH7.2 Unleashed, > which I don't recommend to anyone FWIW), and I seem to be getting caught > between either a HOWTO that's more complicated than I'm looking for (I don't > need DNS, for example), or a dumbed down version that has me edit conf files > that I don't need from a different distribution (RH7.2 does not require > /etc/HOSTNAME, for example). > > Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, Try netconfig, to make sure all your parameters are right. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/index.html <- might help too -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 http://www.tcwug.org, Minnesota, Wireless | Coding isn't a crime. Fingerprint: 02E0 2734 A1A1 DBA1 0E15 623D 0036 7327 93D9 7DA3