Network set up

[Guest dadu31]

Hi,

 

I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 on a DELL SC1600. The installation

process went as planned, however, I cannot connect to the network. If I

change the connection type from static to DHCP, there is a connection

immediately. I can ping the machines card but nothing else on the

network.

 

By way of explaination: DHCP and static nets do not have the same range (192.168.0.x for DHCP and 217.13.x.21x for static). The machine and OS version in question are unique in our network - we have several other Dell servers running v9.2 and do not have the same problem. The static IP range is in a 8 set subnet, the netmask ends with 248.

 

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[aRTee]

Welcome to the board.

 

So if I understand correctly, you want to use the static network address, but if you set it, you cannot ping the machine?

And if you set up the nic with dhcp, all is fine?

 

Set things up with dhcp and check the ip address:

/sbin/ifconfig

See if you can ping the machine from other machines, etc..

then, check the routing table:

/sbin/route

 

 

Then make sure all stays the same, except the network address; you could try this just by shutting down the nic, and starting it again with the static ip.

 

Related commands:

ifconfig

ifup

ifdown

route

and possibly lots more, but those should help out.

 

Let us know how you're doing!