On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 10:34:44AM -0700, Alan Ostroff wrote: > > I can ping 192.168.0.4 sucessfully from the linux box. Shouldn't the > IP address be assigned to the interface when I run ifconfig wvlan0 > up? Not unless you tell ifconfig what the IP address is. How would it know? (ifconfig is a low level tool; it doesn't read configuration files, it is what you use to set the IP address) > Anyway, the real problem is that even at this stage, if I ping from > the linux box to 192.168.0.5 I get nothing. If I ping from the > WIN95 box to 192.168.0.4 I get nothing, however if I run iwconfig I > see the rx packet counter increase. It looks like your linux box also has eth0 configured for the *same* 192.168.0.* network. You can't do that: your box might be responding to the wireless pings by sending packets out on eth0, because your routing is ambiguous. -- Dave |
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