Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

From: Anthony Campbell (ac_at_acampbell.org.uk)
Date: 09/15/05

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    Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:23:58 +0100
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    On 15 Sep 2005, Thomas Adam wrote:
    >
    > --- Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
    >
    > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and
    > > googling hasn't helped.
    >
    > I'm not surprised, as it's quite a specific issue, and doesn't really
    > illustrate any one possible point of failure.
    >
    > > I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and
    > > ADSL
    > > modem. Both machines reach the internet without problems, one via a
    > > cable link to the modem, the other via a wireless link to the
    > > router.
    >
    > OK, so that at least proves that you have a default gateway setup OK.
    >
    > > However, they do not communicate with each other. I cannot ping from
    > > one
    > > to the other though I can ping localhost on each. Turning off the
    > > firewall (shorewall) does not help.
    >
    > Then you should use the command:
    >
    > traceroute <IP>
    >
    > To at least see where the point of failure is likely to be.
    > Furthermore, when asking questions like this, it is often handy to
    > include the output (or at least a link to it) of the:
    >

    I already tried traceroute but it doesn't give any information (just a
    series of asterisks).

    Other results:

    For desktop:

    ac:~:$ route -n
    Kernel IP routing table
    Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
    192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
    0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

    ifconfig -a:

    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:2B:02:32:FB
              inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
              RX packets:80839 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:78184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:18500180 (17.6 MiB) TX bytes:6337927 (6.0 MiB)
              Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000

    lo Link encap:Local Loopback
              inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
              RX packets:1216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:1216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:90947 (88.8 KiB) TX bytes:90947 (88.8 KiB)

    For laptop:

    Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
    192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
    0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

    ac:/usr/share/doc/shorewall:$ ifconfig -a
    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:1B:DE:4B:CF
             BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
             RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
             TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
             RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
             Interrupt:11

    eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:96:44:B5:A6
             inet addr:192.168.0.22 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
             inet6 addr: fe80::240:96ff:fe44:b5a6/64 Scope:Link
             UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
             RX packets:490 errors:11307 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:11307
             TX packets:309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             collisions:52 txqueuelen:1000
             RX bytes:107110 (104.5 KiB) TX bytes:18357 (17.9 KiB)
             Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

    lo Link encap:Local Loopback
             inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
             inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
             UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
             RX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
             TX packets:32 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
             RX bytes:2496 (2.4 KiB) TX bytes:2496 (2.4 KiB)

    sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
             NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
             RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
             TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
             RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

    wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-40-96-44-B5-A6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
             BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:2312 Metric:1
             RX packets:490 errors:11307 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:11307
             TX packets:309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             collisions:52 txqueuelen:100
             RX bytes:107110 (104.5 KiB) TX bytes:18357 (17.9 KiB)
             Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

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