Re: Network is a Not-work... Where'd it go?

[Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij caiw nl>]

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Colin Smiley wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> After finally getting RH 4.1 installed, I have found that I cannot see
> my gateway. As a matter of fact, using tcpdump, I was able to see that
> *nothing* was reaching my card.
> 
> Here's the deal:
> 
> I have an Intel EtherExpress. It's at IRQ 10, I/O 0x300-0x30f. The
> card is found correctly during boot, and there are no errors when the
> network starts up. If I check ifconfig, everything is set up
> correctly. However, if I do a 'netstat -r' I get the column headings,
> then it hangs (I need to interrupt it with a Ctrl-C). If I manually
> add things with 'route', and do 'netstat -r' again, I see the stuff I
> added (sometimes not all of it) and then it hangs as before.

Seems like it can's find any DNS information. Please chekout that you
system is using a valid /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf or a valid
/etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf file.

Retry the commands witho the -n flag to skip name resolving and you will
get bare ip numbers instead.

I don't think it's a card problem.

Hugo.

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