Thanks for all the responses!!
The original problem:
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I've set up a couple of new Alpha 433 workstations with pre-installed DEC
Unix 4.0D.
One of them gave me a problem that I can't seem to figure out. Any help
would be
greatly appreciated.
It seems that ping and traceroute do not want to see outside of my network.
If I ping to an address outside my network, I get no responses. Ping'ing
inside
the network works fine. However, pinging from an outside host into my
machine
works great. And (here's the kicker) all other, higher level processes
seem to work ok.
IOW, telnet, www, ftp, all work fine. It's just ping and traceroute that
seem to have problems.
I set up the network stuff using the Digital GUI interfaces for network
config. Then checked
all the files (that I know about) against the same files on the other
(identical) machine which I
set up in a similar fashioin (which works just fine, BTW) and can find no
inconsistancies.
It looks as though my pings are just not getting passed the router, for
some reason. But they do
for every other machine on the network.
>>>>
Solution:
Thanks to Mitch Bertone and Tim Ambrose for the clues that led me to the
problem!
Doing a netstat -r , I noticed some peculiar entries such as duplicated
netmask entries
(both correct). Also there was an extra reference to my router.
I attempted to delete the offending lines with a "route delete ..."
command, but it didn't work
for some reason. So, I went ahead and rebooted the system. When it came
back up,
the routing tables were clean again and all was well. I assume that
flushing the routing tables
and adding in the appropriate entries again would have done the same thing
(now that I think
about it.).
I'm still not sure how the table got screwed up in the first place, but now
I know what to watch for.
Thanks again...
Tony Warner
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Tony Warner
Tony.Warner_at_gat.com
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Received on Wed Jul 15 1998 - 22:03:10 NZST