Subject: Newbie Networking Question
From: Dave Warner (davewarner@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 15:51:20 MST
I've just got YDL 2.1 running on my PowerComputing PowerBase 240. So far,
the system seems to be running just fine. However, I'm having some
networking problems. I've got a DSL connection, and I'm using a Linksys
router with a firewall and dhcp server to split it between a few computers.
I'd like to use the YDL box as a Samba server, and a web server and ftp
server later down the line. I bought and installed a Linksys NIC for the
PowerBase. However, the only communication that seems to work between the
YDL box and any other computers (LAN or WAN) is ping. It can successfully
ping my Win98 box and the router's firewall, and the Win98 box can ping it,
but I can't telnet or lynx anywhere, and the box doesn't show up on my
Win98's Network Neighborhood (the daemons seem to be running). I did some
spelunking around, and when I ran ifconfig, I got the following for my
Ethernet:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 65:5A:04:00:12:05
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:166 errors:0 dropped:1248975 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:150 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:28 Base address:0x9000
I'm guessing that dropping over a million packets on the receiving end is
Bad, but I don't know what it might mean or what to do about it.
I'm pretty comfortable in *nix as a user, but I have very little experience
as an admin or doing much networking. Any help or ideas would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks.
dave.
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