Topic: Help needed

[Gary Stark]

Ok, I've got the CD, and installed it in a system. Accepted most of the defaults, and let it rip. The problem is that I cannot see this system on the LAN. Nowhere. Pinging it just times out. Searching finds nothing.

Some details ...

System is a brand new box, with an integrated SIS900 NIC. Prior to installing e-smith I lodaed a copy of W2K, and it was able to talk to my LAN with no problems, so I know that the NIC and cable
are operational.

For this particular setup, I have set up a small LAN, comprising 3 systems.

System 1 is the e-smith server, set up as server and gateway, with dial-up access, but not yet connected to the outside world. IP address is 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0. Workgoup is redbacksweb.

System 2 is W2K Pro. IP 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0. TCP/IP installed, NetBui not installed. Workgoup is redbacksweb.

System 3 is W98SE, IP 192.168.1.3/255.255.255.0. TCP/IP is installed, and again, NetBui is not installed. Workgoup is redbacksweb.

System 3 can ping System 2, and can see it in the Windoze Explore. Likwise, System 2 can ping System 3 with no issues whatsoever., and it too can see System 3 from the Explorer.

From this, it's obvious that the basic network is working as expected.

Given all of the above, it would seem to me that both of these systems should be able to system 1, yet neither can.

So, what am I missing, and/or what can I do to make this happen?

And and all suggestion will be gratly expected.

[Dan Brown]

Is the network interface on the e-smith box actually up?  If you log in as root and run ifconfig, what's shown?

[Gary Stark]

Dan,

Thanx for that.

Yes, it seems to be up. This shows that the two interfaces are running : loopback, as well as sl0.

For sl0, it's showing the link encap though as Serial Line IP (is this correct - serial line ? ), and while it's showing the correct IP address - 192.168.1.1, it's also showing P-t-P as 0.0.0.0, which may - or may not - be correct, but the Mask is shown as 255.255.255.255, which I don't think is correct. The mask is configered within the server as 255.255.255.0.

This may well be the problem, but how do I change this, as it's showing something so different from what I've set?

Also for sl0 it's showing TX packets of 4673, so it obviously thinks that it's doing someing ...

[Dan Brown]

OK, that sounds like it's not up after all.  You're looking for eth0, and if all you've got is sl0 and lo, that's your problem.  Try "ifup eth0" at the command line, and see what happens.