by I am a newbie for Linux and need some networking advice. I have a
couple of problems. I am running 1.0.9 and am using an ne2000
compatible card.
1. I find that I often can telnet and ftp to a remote host from my
machine but not vice versa. Incoming tcp/ip connections just hang
after saying "connected to trinity.mse.vt.edu". If I add some local
networks to the routing table, using
route -add net "network" device eth0
the problem goes away temporarily and then resurfaces again.
The following is my routing table :
Kernel routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
128.173.6.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
128.173.5.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 142463 eth0
128.173.54.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 203 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 1224 lo
default isb-ags.e0.cns. * UG 0 0 216495 eth0
2. Running the command
ifconfig eth0
reports the network and IP addresses as configured, but the wrong
hardware address.
eth0 Link encap UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 \
-00-00-00-00
inet addr 128.173.6.213 Bcast 128.173.7.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU 1500 Metric 1
RX packets 1498228 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
TX packets 74967 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0
What is it that I am doing wrong ? I will appreciate any suggestions.
Vijay Shastry