[TriLUG] Can't reach default gateway

Ryan Leathers Ryan.Leathers at globalknowledge.com
Mon Dec 9 12:30:39 EST 2002


Its not easy to get these off the hosts, but I have looked at them and
don't find anything odd

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Stancil [mailto:sstancil at geekrooms.com]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:36 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Can't reach default gateway

Could you cat /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth* to
us?


>
> I am baffled.
>
> During some recent down time in my network I made some changes to
> hardware and topology.
> Several hosts in the network run Redhat 6.2 and have static addresses
> from 172.16.130.0/24.
> The default gateway for these hosts is 172.16.130.1
>
> I am able to reach Windows PC's and Redhat 8 Servers in the
172.16.130.0
> network but I can't reach the Redhat 6.2 hosts.
> In fact, the Redhat 6.2 hosts can't ping the default gateway though
they
> can reach other hosts in the same network.
>
> I replaced one of the Redhat 6.2 hosts with a Redhat 8 box using the
> same cabling and addressing - this was successful.
>
> Is there some configuration on the Redhat 6.2 hosts that could be
doing
> this?  The configs have not changed on these hosts, but the router
> interface they use as their default gateway has changed.  Still, I
don't
> understand why every other type of host is working if the problem is
at
> the router (there are no ACL's on the router)
>
> Can anyone suggest a plausible explanation for this behavior ?  I am
in
> a crunch and can't afford to upgrade everything to Redhat 8 right now.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan


--
Scott Stancil
sstancil at geekrooms.com



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