problems connecting to the net.

[lynn sears]

output from /sbin/ifconfig has nothing to say about eth0 only localhost info
# /sbin/ifconfig/ eth0 up  =  resource temporarily unavailable

these machines can't ping each other but can ping themselves

after I # /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart = shutting down eth0  OK; 
setting network parameters  OK;
bringing up lo = OK; bringing up eth0 = OK



At 11:09 AM 11/13/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi-
>
>What's the output from /sbin/ifconfig ? (after bringing up eth0)
>In particular, we're interested in the entries for eth0
>Usually the command to manually bring up and shutdown an interface is:
>         ifconfig <interface> up|down
>so:
>         [root at localhost]
>         # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
>
>Can any of the machines ping each other?
>Can they ping themselves on the IP address associated with eth0?
>
>On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:53:13AM -0800, lynn sears wrote:
> > Hello, I'm experiencing problems with three linux machines--the same 
> problem.
> > I can't seem to enable networking. 2 machines are connected to the net 
> through
> > a dsl router and I have entered all the configuration info using
> > linuxconf.  when i
> > activate the changes and preview what has to be done I get the message
> > executing /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network reload.  So I  ./S10network start and
> > things
> > seem to be fine, eth0 comes up OK but still no connection.  I think I'm
> > using the
> > correct NIC modules ie tulip for a linksys card and de4x5 for a 
> Farallon card.
> > Maybe the bios needs to be changed or ???? Both of these machines are 
> emachines
> > dual boot runnning 6.1 red hat.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance...Lynn