Hi there,

I recently started learning Linux by using Mandrake 8.1. Now I've set up a home network and there's something strange that I can't figure out. I have a workstation and a server, both M8.1, connected to a combined gateway/firewall/switch from D-Link (713p).

The dlink has the address 10.0.0.1 (I'm getting DSL soon :-), workstation 10.0.0.50 and server 10.0.0.2. NMask is 255.255.255.0 on all.

Now the problem is that when I ping the D-Link from the workstation I get 0% packet loss, but when I ping the server I get lots of packet loss (the icmp_seq skips numbers). This results in when I try to telnet to my server i get "connected. escape character is ^]", but the login prompt never shows. Does this have something to do with the "metric" setting for the nic on server or workstation? This is set default to 1 so I tried to increase it with "ifconfig eth0 metric 5", but got the message "SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported".

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance!

- Christian Myrvold

I'm not sure if this will solve your problem but I can right some wrongs in your config.

First of all your using a private class A network.
For the non-nerd(that's you) use a NMask or subnet mask of 255.0.0.0 That I believe leaves 0 bits for subnetting and everything is right in the world. Besides with a home network(Which I'm assuming you are doing this one) there is no gain for creating subnets.

Next try to keep your network IPs closer together if you can.
If you only have a few computers use 10.0.0.1 .2 .3 .4

Next If you can't change the metric then you may have a funky NIC, that is temperamental in Linux. But maybe you don't so search the forum.

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