On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, Larry Linder wrote:

> Not really the place for this but I need some neural help.
>
> New prototype system for SL 6.4 -=20
> Installed as a custom install - so we can get disks labeled as we need them.
> Set up everything but could not access the Internet.   Since this is a new=
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> Gigabyte  GA-970A-DS3, AMD quad core, 16G of dram and a couple of TByte=20
> disks.
> Used the Ethernet install tool on GNOME and it all looked good - addresses=
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> checked, router, gateway etc.
>
> When I ran ping 192.168.0.1 		-  address of our router
> =46rom 192.168.0.111 icmp_seq=3D1 Destination Host Unreachable
> and then=20
> "insufficient memory" error
> The second time I ran "ping"it gave the same result but no memory error.
>
> Added a known good 10/100 Ethernet board and used next address and the exac=
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> same result.  Used eth1 for new board and  eth0 for the MB Ethernet.
>
> 3 rd attempt was an install - upgrade with command line
> linux - asknetwork
> Set this up as it asked with offset address of 192.168.0.112,mask,gateway &=
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> metric =3D 1 reboot and same result.
>
> This appears to be some kind of Firewall problem.   In SL5.8 you had the=20
> option of setting it promiscuous and then it all worked and it was easy to=
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> add the required firewall protections.   But this network is inside the pla=
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> so we do not check everything.
> Would like to turn Firewall stuff off to see if problem goes away but could=
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> find little info on it .
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> I am convinced that HW is good, tested cable drop and was able to connect i=
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> to another box and Ethernet worked.
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> 4.  Next will be an install with a live CD and see if we can make the=20
> connection with it.
>
> Any ideas as to where to look or how to disable security stuff.
>
> Thank You=20
> Larry Linder
>

What does "ifconfig" show?

-Connie Sieh