Network exists, eth0/route/something fails
 

Hey all,

I've managed to connect two computers via xover cable (client is Gentoo laptop, server is Mandrake 10.0 desktop).
The network works since the computers can ping each other, but when I try: mount x.x.0.2:/ /mnt/network
I get an error like RPC: no route to host
(or something to that effect, I don't have the exact message here right now)
Also, on the MDK server, during boot it fails to bring up eth0. Despite this, ifconfig shows eth0.

As far as the IP addresses, they should be set up properly...
gateway: x.x.0.1
server: x.x.0.2
client: x.x.0.3
broadcast: x.x.0.255
netmask: 255.255.255.0

I'm not sure what troubleshooting commands you'll need since I haven't done much networking before, so let me know what you need to help solve this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

PS how do you get the ping command to not go forever? I keep having to ctrl+alt+f2 and kill it manually...

The c option allows for a fixed number of counts if not specified ping will operate until interrupted. Use ctrl-C to interrupt. See man pages for ping for
additional details.

Is NFS running on the server i.e. your MDK box?
Did you setup /etc/exports.
If the firewall is running does it allow NFS traffic.

Thanks for the help with ping (why is it the man pages make so much more sense when I already know what they mean?)

As far as NFS running, ps axu shows 8 processes called [nfsd] running.
I did setup /etc/exports:
where x.x is obviously the values I'm using for the network. I intend to adjust it later so I'm not sharing the entire drive, but for I figured it's easier to do this until I get some kind of results.

iptables is running, and may very well be the problem. I haven't changed anything from the system default. I know I can find out how to add rules from the man pages, but last time I tried to adjust the iptables rules (for the purposes of ssh) I succeeded only in stopping everything from coming in. (Actually I think I was permitting requests from a non-existant address but you can imagine how useless that was).

How should I tell iptables to allow NFS?

Take a look at the howto.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/...html#FIREWALLS

Thanks a lot, I'll let you know how it works out

Ok, I've got things figured out now. Turns out my problem was even before configuring iptables. Apparantly I editted /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny wrong. I fixed it with the same howto:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/server.html#HOSTS

I can now mount NFS. There is one problem left though. I need to know how to setup the default ip address for the Mandrake distro. I currently have to set it manually every time I boot.

Thanks,

Steve