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by **Kira** » Thu, 15 Jan 1998 04:00:00

I am upgrading the kernel from 1.2.13 to 2.0.31. I am getting a few
errors and I was wondering if someone could help me out.

The new kernel works fine, networking is fine, but I can't seem to ping
that machine from itself.
I can ping all other machines within our network from that machine.
I can telnet to that machine from other machines, but I cannot telnet to
the same machine from itself.
I can go to other sites using netscape, or lynx from that machine.
But I cannot ping itself nor ping sites outside the network, though I can
go to those sites using netscape or lynx from that machine.

Also a few third party programs compiled on the old kernel core dumps when
I try to run in the background.

Any suggestions would help

Thanks

Kiran

by **Frank Sweetse** » Sat, 17 Jan 1998 04:00:00

> I am upgrading the kernel from 1.2.13 to 2.0.31. I am getting a few
> errors and I was wondering if someone could help me out.

[various problems snipped, all more than likely caused by the fact that
poster didn't read linux/Documentation/Changes and upgrade the dozen or so
system components required to go 1.2 -> 2.0]

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by **Matt Bancro** » Mon, 19 Jan 1998 04:00:00

>I am upgrading the kernel from 1.2.13 to 2.0.31. I am getting a few
>errors and I was wondering if someone could help me out.

Your running lots of old utilities, that have various bugs, security
problems, and have some cool new features added in the present version.
You might consider updating to a new distribution of linux like
redhat5 or slakware3.4. But if the machine isn't connected to a network
and sees only ocassional use there's no real need to update.

Quote:
>But I cannot ping itself nor ping sites outside the network, though I can
>go to those sites using netscape or lynx from that machine.

hmm

make sure that youve got the loopback device compiled into the kernel and
try the following commands as root

ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.1 lo

by **Slava Pesto** » Tue, 20 Jan 1998 04:00:00

> >I am upgrading the kernel from 1.2.13 to 2.0.31. I am getting a few
> >errors and I was wondering if someone could help me out.

> Your running lots of old utilities, that have various bugs, security
> problems, and have some cool new features added in the present version.
> You might consider updating to a new distribution of linux like
> redhat5 or slakware3.4. But if the machine isn't connected to a network
> and sees only ocassional use there's no real need to update.

> >But I cannot ping itself nor ping sites outside the network, though I can
> >go to those sites using netscape or lynx from that machine.

> hmm

> make sure that youve got the loopback device compiled into the kernel and
> try the following commands as root

> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.1 lo

It should be route add -net 127.0.0.0 lo .

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