[SOLVED]Unable to ping the server

[vinay87]

Heya

I've been using Linux Mint 9 Isadora on my eMachines M250 Netbook (works great btw!).

I need to ping a server to which I'm connected through LAN in order to access the public license on a software that I'll need to install on Windows through VirtualBox. However, I found that I'm unable to ping the server on my Mint host so I was wondering if someone could help me out or at least guide me in the right direction.

I have no experience with networking though.

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#ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 70:5a:b6:04:5b:1e  
          inet addr:10.40.27.32  Bcast:10.40.27.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::725a:b6ff:fe04:5b1e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:199801 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:64075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:230819292 (230.8 MB)  TX bytes:6824458 (6.8 MB)
          Interrupt:29 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:240 (240.0 B)  TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)

vboxnet0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 0a:00:27:00:00:00  
          inet addr:192.168.56.1  Bcast:192.168.56.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::800:27ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:385 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:45032 (45.0 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 90:4c:e5:a0:80:46  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

#route -n

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
10.40.27.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0
192.168.56.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vboxnet0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         10.40.27.1      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

[Habitual]

This server you are trying to ping, what OS is installed on it?
Is that server also on the same 10.x.x.x network or does it have another (public) IP?
Can you ping that if it does?
Can you telnet to the server using its 10.x.x.x or public IP?

Are both machines using the same gateway address in their network setup?

You're not trying to ping an box on a 10.x.x.x IP from 192.168.56.x are you? That will NOT work.

Please let us know...

[DrHu]

Some server services deliberately do not respond to echo commands (pings)

In windows, you can run the ipconfig /all command or the netstat or other net (netbios names) to determine what is or is not available
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000444.htm

Now, if it is the case that you have access to the LAN and access to the software, then any administrator or other authority within that system should be able to provide you with the IP address or other data you would need in order to load/run that software

• That is if you are allowed to install it locally..

On Linux, similarly, either the net commands, such as netstat or an ifconfig in the terminal
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uifconfi.htm

[vinay87]

Hmm thanks for the reply but somehow it appears to be working today. Not sure how!


Thanks anyway!