Re: [SLUG] network configuration with Debian

From: Dennis McDonald (dmcdon3@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 22:28:39 EDT


I have a similar situation with my latest kernel. dhclient is in rc5 ,
but top shows this not running, so I am using old one until I can figure
this out. Can't wait...
DM

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 21:56, Eric Jahn wrote:
> A tale of two kernels: I have two kernels: one was installed by Debian and one
> I compiled from a .config file that has previously worked great on my
> computer for many kernels. lsmod says both kernels have the same eepro100
> module loaded when they are running, and DHCP loads on boot for both. When I
> boot from the one installed by Debian, I can ping out. However when I boot
> from the one I compiled, I can't ping out.
> ericdeb:~# ping 68.56.0.5
> PING 68.56.0.5 (68.56.0.5): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
>
> For the bad kernel, here's what ifconfig outputs:
>
> ericdeb:~# ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:9A:40:3B
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:7234 (7.0 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x6000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:4276 (4.1 KiB) TX bytes:4276 (4.1 KiB)
>
> Conversely, here's what the good kernel's ifconfig says:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:9A:40:3B
> inet addr:4.8.41.173 Bcast:4.8.63.255 Mask:255.255.224.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:28268 (27.6 KiB) TX bytes:15742 (15.3 KiB)
> Interrupt:19 Base address:0x1000
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:4276 (4.1 KiB) TX bytes:4276 (4.1 KiB)
>
> So I don't get the "inet addr: ..." line with the bad kernel. Any hints on
> what might be going on that makes one kernel have internet connectivity and
> the other not? Everything is the same between them as far as I can tell. Oh
> yeah, back to the tale of two kernels: I want to behead the good kernel,
> because it has all those extra modules I don't use, but I can't sacrifice the
> bad one for it because it doen't have internet working, just like the book.
> Thank you for any ideas you may have. -Eric
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