DockStar does not respond to network connections

Hey guys,

I'm quiet confused at the moment. I set up a new DockStar with the same USB FlashDrive which worked before.

Debian seems to boot correctly, it send hostname to my router and it obtains it's ip address BUT it does not respond to ping or ssh.. I also tried another FlashDrive and reinstalled it several times.. do you guys have any ideas or suggestions?

I did not check the configs till now, need to set up a linux based vm cause I'm using a mac but I gonna do this later to figure out config issues but in the meantime you can maybe provide some other ideas?


Kind regards
tucow

Hi again,

this is quiet crazy, I can't find any error.. dhcp is working, no error in logfiles..
Changed some lo configuration from

# The loopback network interface
auto lo eth0

to

# The loopback network interface
auto lo

and added

allow-hotplug eth0

to the main interface configuration but it's not working.. maybe something wrong in some other configuration I'm not thinking about? It's totally strange that the box does not respond to ping commands. See the following output:

$ ping 10.1.1.100
PING 10.1.1.100 (10.1.1.100): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
^C
--- 10.1.1.100 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

And ssh gives me the following:

$ ssh root@10.1.1.100
ssh: connect to host 10.1.1.100 port 22: No route to host

What am I missing/not thinking about?



Edit: I'm using lenny now, it works but i want squeeze.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2011 06:36AM by tucow.

Seems like DHCP isn't working correctly. I gave it a static IP and it's working fine.

/etc/network/interfaces should contain:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

I know this, and this is also in the default config but it still doesn't work.

But anyway, I turned eth0 to static and it worked. And now it's unnecessary, I'm using wlan0 now.

Do you have the dhcp3 client installed?