This is my first post one what appears to be an excellent place for a newbie such as myself, so be nice :-)

I had a problem with a full hard drive which crashed my SuSE 7.1 Linux server. I have cleaned out the disk and sorted out the disk problems, but I am now faced with two network cards that fails to work.

If I ping localhost I get the error message

PING localhost (127.0.0.1):56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
ping: wrote localhost 64 chars, ret=-1

If I ping the interface I get

PING 192.168.40.90: 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Invalid argument
ping: wrote 192.168.40.90 64 chars, ret=-1

I am running IPTables, but also get this error message when I have removed all blocking....

Other things I have noticed is that I get the following in my boot.msg file

Setting up network device eth0
insmod: insmod: a module named eepro100 already exists
insmod: insmod: insmod eth0 failed

As of yet I cannot find any more error messages out of place !!!

I am now stuck and in need of further help.

Questions asked will be answered !!

need to check your kernel
what is compiled in from netowrk devices (eth +loopback=>localhost)

I believe it is ok. It worked until I had disk full problem.

Please can you tell me where to check for this ??

Please paste the output of lsmod as well as ifconfig.

If the output of ifconfig does not contain anything about eth0, give the output of ifconfig -a instead (and tell us what you did).

Finally give us the contents of your /etc/modules.conf.

That should give us everything we need to find your problem.

Thanks for your comments, but in the end I deleted the interface definitions and reinstalled the network cards. That seemed to fix the problem. Also changed IPTables rules to allow better control of traffic.

Many Thanks

Mr mentor99us

I have a similar prob, since i've put in iptables, it get
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted

my config is suppose allow all packets to leave the gateway, any specific rule i should put it?

Thanks to all

try this

/sbin/ping

thanks, that worked !