Ethernet card: no response to pings

["Brett Robson" <brettr@example.com>]

 

Hi I'm new to TLUG, if your interested my self introduction is at the end.

 

Short question: what is the (RedHat) daemon that listens to the network?

 

Long question:

 

I've exhausted all the documentation and books that I can find so any
help is appreciated.

 

I have a Netgear FA310TX ethernet card installed in an Intel box running
Redhat 7.1, I have a Windows latop trying to talk to it.

 

The Linux machine is not responding to pings and cannot ping the latop.
I've tried the obvious things, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of
documentation on getting this working if you run into problems. There
is only one net card in the linux and there doesn't seem to be any h/w
problems.

 

(I've subsituted 11.22 at the beginning of IP)
The laptops ip num is 11.22.185.249 netmask 255.255.255.0
The Linux box has ip 11.22.185.248 netmask  255.255.255.0

 

netstat -rn gives
Dest         Gtwy             Genmask   
127.0.0.1    0.0.0.0          255.255.255.255   UH  ... lo
11.22.185.0  0.0.0.0          255.255.255.0     U   ... eth0
0.0.0.0      11.22.185.248    0.0.0.0           UG  ... eth0

 

I've tried adding this ...
11.22.185.0  11.22.185.248    11.22.185.0      UG   ... eth0

 

The packets from the laptop seem to be arriving as the RX packets in
ifconfig increases with each ping I send.

 

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Self Intro

 

I'm an Aussie, and work at The Yamasa Institute a Japanese school in Okazaki, Aichi. My hobby is reading a book.

 

Brett

 

 

 

 

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Brett Robson
System Administrator
Yamasa,Aichi Center for Japanese Studies
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