[Discuss] new laptop, new problems

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

dan moylan wrote: 
> 
> at the moment i have three laptops on my local net running
> fc38.  the newest, deneb2 (hp laptop), is giving me problems;
> 
> this is its /etc/hosts:
>   127.0.0.1        localhost localhost.localdomain
>   127.0.0.1        deneb2    deneb2.localdomain
>   192.168.12.1     t-mobile  t-mobile.localdomain
>   192.168.12.148   alphacent alphacent.localdomain  (now off line)
>   192.168.12.171   aldeberan aldeberan.localdomain
>   192.168.12.183   deneb2    deneb2.localdomain
>   192.168.12.221   rigel     rigel.localdomain
>   192.168.12.117   HP_DeskJet_2700_series_0A85DE HP_DeskJet_2700_series_0A85DE.localdomain
>   50.87.218.82     bluedan
> 
> the situation:
>   aldeberan can ping t-mobile, rigel, but not deneb2
>   rigel     can ping t-mobile, aldeberan, but not deneb2
>   deneb2    can ping t-mobile, bluedan, mit.edu,
>               but neither aldeberan nor rigel
>               (destination host unreachable)
> 
> deneb2's route:
>   Kernel IP routing table
>   Destination   Gateway  Genmask       Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
>   default       _gateway 0.0.0.0       UG    600    0     0 wlo1
>   192.168.12.0  0.0.0.0  255.255.255.0 U     600    0     0 wlo1
> 
> i can't imagine what the difficulty is.


Didn't you have this problem about a month ago?

Tell us your actual network topology.

gateway: hardware, IPs, connections. Does it do DHCP? MAC
filtering? show us all the configs.

ethernet switch?

what acts as a wifi access point?

how are things connected to each other?

-dsr-