kilaueabart wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:05 pm
I can ping from OS4. Numbers that work include 198.168.1.0, 198.168.1.1, 198.168.1.23, 135.180.163.44, and 8.8.8.8. You asked whether I could ping my router's IP address, but I'm not sure how to find it at the moment.
Based on the other address examples, I'd be willing to bet your router has 192.168.1.1 (as does my own). BTW, you wrote that you tried 198.something, but you must have tried 192.something; that is one of the address ranges normally used in local networks, i.e. under e.g. a router.
I tried 198.168.1.0 from fienix, with a different result: "ping: Do you want to ping broadcast? Then -b. If not, check your local firewall rules."
Yes, addresses ending in .0 are used for broadcast to the whole range, which is normally not what you want to ping to.
No comment in OS4, just pings.
It's just a case of the Linux ping program being a slight bit more friendly that the OS4 one. The result - if you persist with the -b switch in Linux - is the same.
198.168.1.1 works in fienix. I guess that works everywhere?
As this is most likely the address of your router/gateway, then yes, it would work from any LAN machine.
I found the 198.168.1.23 in Devs/Netinterfaces/p50x0_eth/.
Again, hopefully it says 192 instead of 198? Since it is in the NetInterfaces file, it is the IP address that your machine wants to use for itself, if allowed.
Just for fun I tried it from Fienix:
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fienix@Fienix:~$ ping 192.168.1.23
PING 192.168.1.23 (192.168.1.23) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.187 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
I find the last line curious; 192.168.1.187 is fienix.
It's the machine you're running ping on, and it says it can't find any system using the address 192.168.1.23. If this is the same physical machine, which you have just booted into Fienix instead of into OS4, it's no wonder. While you run one OS, the other is not running.
It might be a good idea to use the same IP address for your machine whether it runs Fienix or OS4, to avoid confusion. Or if you don't, write down which address you have set in which OS, so you know why the other one is not found while one is running.
I don't remember where I found 135.180.163.44. It works from OS4, fienix, and my laptop.
It's some server outside your local network (since it doesn't have an address in your local range, 192.168.1.something), i.e. out there on the Internet. I can ping it from here as well, but it doesn't respond when using a web browser, so maybe it's also a DNS server, just like 8.8.8.8 is.
Best regards,
Niels