[PLUG] Routers again <sigh>

[drew wymore]

On 4/12/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:37:08 -0700
> "drew wymore" <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> > > jjj at Devil5:~$ ping 192.168.1.4
> > > PING 192.168.1.4 (192.168.1.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > > >From 192.168.1.3 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>
> > That means that that host IP is unreachable from the current subnet that
> the
> > computer is connected to. If you run /sbin/ifconfig on either the fedora
> or
> > edgy laptop what do you get back for an IP?
>
> >From the laptop I get:
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:B0:03:03:86
>           inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b0ff:fe03:386/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:198045 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:82112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:135886534 (129.5 MiB)  TX bytes:10454916 (9.9 MiB)
>           Interrupt:185 Base address:0xc800
>
> >From the desktop I get the same thing with a few details different:
>
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:27:76:88:86:8D
>           inet addr:192.168.0.101  Bcast:192.168.0.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::290:27ff:fe76:888d/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:13281943 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets: errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:12541853409 (11.6 GiB)  TX bytes:3844030676 (3.5 GiB)
>
> The router is set to 192.168.0.1.
>
> Omigod, I just got it. The "0" in the router address is the subnet. I
> just now went into CUPS on the laptop and changed the IP connection
> addresses for the printers from 19.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.24 to
> 192.168.0.4 and 192.168.0.24. And now they both print! Yay!
>
> Some day I may actually understand this stuff.
>
> Thanks!


I figured thats what was going on :-)  Glad to hear you're up and running.

Drew-