3c905b problems (solved)

Vikram Rayabhari vikram@asterix.cis.ohio-state.edu
Mon Feb 22 16:12:55 1999


My problem is solved !!!! Thanks Brian and Vaclav for the super fast help.
The culprit was the wrong subnet mask. 

Thanks again
Vikram

On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Brian D. Winters wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 12:55:57PM -0500, Vikram Rayabhari wrote:
> > I have a linux box at my office with a 3c905b card. I am not able to
> > access any machines outside the subnet. Ping to the default gateway and
> > other machines in my subnet works fine. Ping to any machine outside the
> > subnet just bombs. 
> ....
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:5A:98:46:0D
> >           inet addr:164.107.60.132  Bcast:164.107.255.255
> > 	  Mask:255.255.0.0
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> >           TX packets:1041 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> >           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1400 
> > 
> > Default Gateway 164.107.60.1
> > Default gateway device eth0
> 
> I would bet that your subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0, not
> 255.255.0.0.
> 
> Brian
>