Unless you're running any flavor of NIS, clean that outa nsswitch.conf.
What kinda box is this on? MB chipsets can change things.
-ls-
Tyron Stading <tstading@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for responding. This problem is driving me crazy. Here is the info
> you wanted.
>
> The nsswitch.conf reads:
> hosts: files nisplus nis dns
>
> resolv.conf reads:
> domain stanford.edu
> search stanford.edu
> nameserver 171.64.7.55
> nameserver 171.64.7.77
> nameserver 171.64.7.99
>
> I have two ethernet cards installed. This might be one of the
> problems. The built-in ethernet card is a Davicom 9102. I am using tulip
> on this one. I compiled a driver for the card on the system(dmfe), but it
> doesn't show up in the options for netcfg. This is listed as eth1.
> The other card is a NetGear. I am using the tulip driver for that as
> well. It is eth0.
>
> I am running kernel 2.2.14-5.0 (Redhat 6.2).
>
> I have the ethernet cable plugged into the NetGear card, and running
> ifconfig gives the following output:
> eth0: Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr: 00:A0:CC:58:FC:B3
> inet addr: 171.66.13.44 Bcast:171.66.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets: 7573 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets: 0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueelen:100
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xde00
>
> lo Link encap: Local loopback
> inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPING RUNNING MTU: 3924 Metric:1
> RX packets: 7573 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets: 0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueelen:0
>
> Thanks.
> Tyron
>
> At 10:26 PM 4/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Pinging a normal address (1.2.3.4) should never return 'unknown host'.
> >Let's get past that first. Beyond that, what does /etc/nsswitch.conf
> >look like on the hosts line? What does /etc/resolv.conf look like?
> >Which driver are you using for your nic? tulip? de4x5? Which kernel
> >and what hardware?
> >-ls-
> >
> >
> >Tyron Stading <tstading@stanford.edu> wrote:
> > > I have a problem with getting my ethernet connected. I have configured
> > the
> > > file and the system brings it up, but I can't connect to
> > > anything. ifconfig shows that I am recieving packets, but anytime I
> > try to
> > > ping a name or an IP address, it says unknown host.
> > > RX packets: 4935
> > > TX packets:0
> > > I have configured the addresses of the nameservers too. I know the
> > > ethernet connection works, I know the addresses I have are correct. I
> > have
> > > a cheapo system with a Davicom 9102 ethernet card, and I am running RedHat
> > > 6.2. The system doesn't support it, but I compiled a driver and installed
> > > it. I also have a NetGear card that I am running as eth1. Both are using
> > > tulip as the interface.
> > > Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I have been working on
> > > this forever.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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