[H-GEN] Making my Linux to windows LAN work.

[Johannes Sprigode]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:28, Russell Mathews wrote:
> Yep.  Did it.  I cannot cut and paste to this box.  It produced 3 groups
> of 9, 8 and 6 lines.  The three were: eth0; lo; and sit0.  The eth0 had
> inet addr:10.1.1.3  Bcast: 10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0   for lo it had
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 The first three addresses gave refused connection
> but the 127.0.0.1 [for which the first line was Link encap:Local
> loopback - so 'local' gave me a clue] produced a blank screen in the
> browser window.  This is progress. What do I do now, please?
>

Never mind the 127.0.0.1 which always your local machines ip address. The 
blank screen basically tells you that there is no web server aka httpd (e.g. 
apache) running.

A valid eth0 should look something like below.
There can be fewer or more lines.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 01:23:45:67:89:ab
          inet addr:a.b.c.d  Bcast:a.b.c.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:588765 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:449301 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:486618610 (464.0 Mb)  TX bytes:74255526 (70.8 Mb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800

Check if your eth0 has a vaild hardware address (HWaddr). There has to be 
something but all zeros. Otherwise no go.

Also do a 'netstat -lp' to see which ports your system is listening on.

Lastly keep using 'ping' after every change you made.
Did you try to 'ping' 10.1.1.3 or 127.0.0.1?
Can you 'traceroute' it? Should be in '/usr/sbin/traceroute'

Cheers

Johannes

PS: Please reply back to the list so others can see your progress and may be 
able to chip in.