[KLUG Members] no route to local network?

[Mike Williams]

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> Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
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>>>> >Where is a reference to eth1?  The first line looks like it might be the
>>>> >route to the LAN, is the LAN hooked into eth0?  You're certain the your
>>>> >firewall isn't blocking ICMP?
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>>> That test was run with the rtl 8139 (which was going to be outside) 
>>> disabled, which is why there's no eth1 showing.  At the time I ran these 
>>> tests, the cable-modem hadn't arrived yet so eth1 couldn't get an IP 
>>> anyway.  I've also tried it with the firewall disabled in YAST, and 
>>> nothing changes.  
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>Have these NICs worked at some point since you put them in this machine?
>Anything in dmesg when you try send pings?  What do the counters on the
>interfaces look like (they go up?)?
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No error counts.  I do show packets in and out, though.

>>> How would an IPtables problem produce "no route to 
>>> host" messages anyway?
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>Easy, by tossing ICMP traffic and SYN requests to /dev/null.
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Wouldn't that produce "no response", though?