[Sheflug] Routes and Debian 2.2r0 - just installed.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

 Hi all.

I tried to install Debian again, to try and figure it all out a bit
better, and install the packages I wanted.

 Yuck! The Debian package manager is a nightmare!
 950-odd packages, and a not very helpful frontend. Once again...yuck!
I admit it, I'm too stupid to figure it out. :-)

 I then decided to install OpenBSD 2.7 (still haven't got my 2.8 CDs),
but it hung at the start of the install.
 Back to good ol' Mega-bloat-RH7: 270Mb install :-(
 The OpenBSD standard install is 90Mb, and Debian was a little over a
100Mb!

 However, I'm still having the same problems....the network isn't doing
what it's told.
 I'm going to try accessing the machine, and see what happens, rather
than just try outbound connections from the new box.

 Still, I'm concerned why I have this problem. The hub is definitely
showing activity, but none of the boxen I ping respond. I've tried
swapping the NIC out, no change.

 I posted a load of stuff a good few months back when I had a similar
problem...I just can't really figure it out. Usually, if something goes
wrong, I can fix it if it happens again. not so with this problem :-(

 Help!!!!

 Baz.

Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
> Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> > >  The network is also being wierd...I try to ping my workstation from the
> > > debian machine, and the lights on the hub flash, ping reports the debian
> > > box sending a few packets but there is no response.
> >
> > Is the workstation on the same hub? Are they also on the same subnet?
> >
> > >  What is the easiest way to sort these two problems? Getting ssh onto
> > > the machine is easy, but getting the network going is a pain.
> >
> > Installing openssh is crazy easy. As for the network, you need to gives us
> > physical topology as well as ip numbers and stuff like that ...
> 
>  OK, I've got a 5 port hub which is connected to a mix of OpenBSD and
> Linux boxen (network is 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0), and the Debian box
> was connected to that as 192.168.0.5/255.255.255.0. Most machines are
> running 3Com 509 NICs.
> 
> The route info looked OK, but I guess it really isn't. It'll be a couple
> of days before I fire the machine up again - I've only got one monitor
> and lots of machines, and not having network access to one of them is a
> pain in the behind.
>  It should work :-)
> 
>  I know that installing OpenSSH is a piece of cake, I'm just surprised
> that it isn't installed as standard.
> 
>  Cheers.
> 
>  Baz.
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> Barrie J. Bremner
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