I'm trying to connect my little debian box to our home network, but i'm having some trouble.

Our network consist of two windows computers
(10.0.0.2 & 10.0.0.3), and a router (10.0.0.1)....
I've set my computer to 10.0.0.4.

All computers are connected trough a switch

Now the problem is that i can't ping any of the computers on the network (I can ping 10.0.0.4 (myself)).
I believe this is a routing problem.

This Is my ifconfig:
InetAddr: 10.0.0.4 -- Bcast:10.0.0.255 -- Mask:255.255.255.0

This is the info I get when i just type route
Dest. Gatew. Genmask. ......................................
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U
default 10.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG

Both on eth0

The first line pops right up, but second one comes up after a couple of seconds (I don't know if this is part of the problem)

Can anyone please help me...

It probably is part of the problem since it doesn't know the route to the 10. network. Try adding:
route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0

The "localnet" entry in the route table seems to be the route to 10.0.0.0... When I added the line you said, i just got another one . Can It be something else?

Can you post the entire output of:
route -n
ifconfig

And the output of this on windows:
ipconfig /all
route print

DEBIAN:
Route -n:
Dest. GW Genmask Fla. Metr. Ref. Use IF
10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


ifconfig:
eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr: 00:08:A1:22:57:25
inet addr: 10.0.0.4 Bcast: 10.0.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14764 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txquelen:100
RX bytes 898975 (877.9 KiB) TX bytes:9195 (8.9 KiB)
Interrupt: 10 Base address:0x4000

lo
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txquelen:0
RX bytes 83 (83.0 b) TX bytes:83 (83.0 b)

WINDOWS:
route print:
===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x2 ...00 04 e2 1b 1e c2 ...... SMC EZ Card 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI Network Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2 20

10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.2 20

10.0.0.2 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20

10.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.2 20

127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1

224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.2 20

255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.2 1

Default Gateway: 10.0.0.1
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
None



ipconfig /all:
Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : detroit
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : SMC EZ Card 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-04-E2-1B-1E-C2
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 217.13.4.21
217.13.7.136




Thats All, hope someone can give me some help

Your settings look fine. Have you verified the connection is ok? Are you getting link lights? perhaps you could swap the cables for one that works with a windows machine to make sure it is not faulty.

Hm, I've allready tried that.
Anyone else who knows what could be wrong

Do you have routed on your machine?
If you do start it bytyping "routed" and enter at a prompt.
Your missing an entry in your routing table for 127.0.0.0, routed might fix it, if not add it manually and see what happens.


So it looks like this:

(my routing table on my desktop)
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.0.23.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 10.0.23.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0