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Hi,

 I have a LAN setup at home. I have winnt and 98 machines on this LAN.
Recently I installed Red Hat Linux on a new computer. I want this computer
to also be used on the LAN. I installed a ethernet card which seems to be
working fine [ at bootup it brings up eth0 correctly, i also have a
diagonistic program which detects my ethernet card, so i think this is
working fine.] now i have assigned some random ip address to this machine,
198.164.1.11 but if i try a telnet, ftp or ping from any of the other
machines on LAN this machine is not found, also if i do a ping from this
machine i cannot find any other machine.... what is the problem...? how do
it get this machine on lan .. my network card is a Linksys's Network
Everywhere card. Do let me know.

Regards,
Sachin

First off, what do you mean you've given it a "random" IP addr? Are you
using some sort of protocol like DHCP on your network? Or have you just
been giving "random" IP addr's to all your machines?

Is 198.164.1.0 your network address for all the machines?

Could you give us the output of `ifconfig -a`? (Why does everybody
forget to do that?)

Secondly, I've had lots of trouble using the Linksys cards under Linux
(though I have gotten 3 or so to work).

Third, what version of Red Hat are you running?

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I have Linux boxes and Win95 boxes talking in a home
network. You have to do some setting up with the Windows
boxes so that they will use TCP/IP networking, otherwise
they will happily use IPX or NetBEUI (other protocols) and
leave the Linux box out in the cold. If they don't have it,
use Network properties/Add protocol/Microsoft TCPIP.

Think of some IP numbers (like 192.168.25.1, 192.168.25.2,
etc) and use the network properties in the Win boxes to set
their IP numbers. Use the next one in sequesnce for the
Linux box. You won't have to set the netmask in this case.
(I think!!)

I can't remember if there was anything else I did. You
should be able to ping the other machines to show the
network is up. You will probably be able to Telnet to the
Linux box, but not back. However, you can't log in as root
over Telnet, so set up another ID for this.

Other things are possible, like using the LInux box as a
server (use Samba) but I can't help much here. I'm still
experimenting too.

Good luck

Peter

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