Re: 100% packet loss with new router - help!

From: Terry Sikes (tlsikes_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/21/03 

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:57:22 -0500

Gary Armstrong wrote:
>
>
> Terry Sikes wrote:
>
>> Hi all. I'm having a problem which I've looked into for a couple
>> hours, and which has been bounced off three sysadmins, one of which is
>> a certified Solaris admin. I'm fairly competent with Unix admin in
>> general, but I'm certainly not a guru.
>>
>> The situation is this. At our old location we had a cable modem,
>> connected to a router. It's address was 192.168.2.1, netmask
>> 255.255.255.0. We had to leave the router at the old location, so we
>> picked up a new one for this office. I'm 99.9% sure it is configured
>> just as the old one was. I also have a Linux development box, which
>> had a static IP at the old location (192.168.2.32). It came right up,
>> saw the Internet and is generally a happy camper. We also hooked a
>> Windows box up and it was able to get a DHCP IP address, could see the
>> internet, and ping the Linux box. So, the network seems generally
>> healthy.
>>
>> However, when the Solaris box (SunOS 5.8) booted, and I tried to ping
>> it at it's static IP address (192.168.2.107) as I usually do to see if
>> it's up yet, I never got anything except "Destination Host
>> Unreachable" and a 100% packet loss message after ^C. I have set DHCP
>> on the router to start handing out addresses at 192.168.2.110, so
>> that's not a conflict (and the router's DHCP table never showed the
>> 107 address being leased regardless).
>>
>
> How is the Sun getting it's host info? NIS, files, DNS?

It's using the file (the name escapes me at the moment, equivalent of
/etc/hosts). DNS was never set up properly, that's a task for the final
site location in a few weeks...at least that's when I'd prefer to do it. :-)

Terry

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