Re: [SLUG] network is unrechable

[Terry Collins <terryc@nospam.woa.com.au>]

Ivan Maymi wrote:
> 
> I just intall a (full) Caldera 2.3 distribution and I'm traing to
> connect a "win98" computer to the Linux one via ethernet.
> 
> After configuring all the "required" paramenters, and doing a ping to
> the "win98' computer I get network is unrechable error. This is a simple
> 2 computer network so no router is not  neaded on the eth0 definition.
> 
> I know I'm missing some definition but can't figure this one out.

You still need to tell the Linux box how to reach the network, i.e
etho or ppp0

Have a look at the output of netstat -nr

and "man route"

You will need something like

route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0



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