Hi,

l just setup a linux machine running RH 7.0 and l assigned a fix IP to it. Some how it is unable to reach the default gateway. When l do a tcpdump when pinging to the default gateway, l got the following result

eth0 > arp who-has 202.136.14.1 tell 202.136.14.21 (......
eth0 > arp who-has 202.136.14.1 tell 202.136.14.21 (......
eth0 > arp who-has 202.136.14.1 tell 202.136.14.21 (......
lo > 202.136.14.21 > 202.136.14.21: icmp: host 202.136.14.1 unreachable [tos 0xc0]
lo > 202.136.14.21 > 202.136.14.21: icmp: host 202.136.14.1 unreachable [tos 0xc0]
lo > 202.136.14.21 > 202.136.14.21: icmp: host 202.136.14.1 unreachable [tos 0xc0]
lo > 202.136.14.21 > 202.136.14.21: icmp: host 202.136.14.1 unreachable [tos 0xc0]
lo > 202.136.14.21 > 202.136.14.21: icmp: host 202.136.14.1 unreachable [tos 0xc0]

After getting this result, l remove the loopback address from the routing table and do a ping again. l still get the same result. Any idea what is the step that l miss out?

l have remove all the rules in ipchains so should not be a problem with the firewall.

Thanks
T H Tan

supply this info and I can tell you what's wrong:
as root:

(1)# ifconfig -a
(2)# route
(3)# cat /etc/hosts
(4)# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Don't remove loopback from the router table it's needed.
have you added the default route to the FIB table.

i.e
# route add default gw 202.136.14.1 eth0

/Raz

Hi,

Found out that the PC has a another NIC card which l fail to notice and all the while l was connected to the wrong NIC card..... :-( This is the reason for no network connectivity. l actually add in the default route and did everything l suppose to do except checking the physical connection, l did change a UTP cable, network port etc but did not check for dual NIC cards.......

Thanks a lot for spending time reading and giving the suggestion.

Regards,
T H Tan