Hello friends,

I will start this post with info about the state of my encounter with Linux:

Version: Red Hat 6.2
Network Card: Working

Problem:

I am running two computers successfully on my LAN and I want to add a Linux Box to run another Web Server eventually I am going to set up a DNS on it but first I must be able to access the other computers on my network.

I am currently running a webserver on one of the existing windows boxes and I had figured that I should have been able to ping that box from the Linux box but I recieve the "Network is unreachable"

I have installed and confirmed that my network card is recognized.

How can I resolve the "Network is unreachable" problem?

Do I have to specify a specific IP for my linux box?

At this point I am only concerned with being able to hit the webserver running on a widows box from the Linux machine over my Lan.

Thanks in advance to those who can help.

to ping another box on your lan you need to set the ip address for the same network.

I don't know your address but I will guess it's 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0.
That means your network is 192.168.0

So if your other box is 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0.

then you can set the linux box to 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0.

do it like this

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0


that's all you need to do to ping the network


ping 192.168.0.1

or

ping 192.168.0.2