Gigabit ethernet

[Heba Farouk]

Hi everybody
I'm a newbie to debian. i have a problem and i hope that u could help me.
i'm configuring a gigabit ethernet on a cluster of 4 machines, after configuring the driver, any machine now can ping itself but not the others
can u help me

thanks in advance

[soccercisco]

I'm not quite an expert in networking but I think it would help if you post the output of ifconfig so we are able to see your setup.

[Heba Farouk]

here it is

ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:FE:47:3F:F0
inet addr:172.22.0.200 Bcast:172.22.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2855 (2.7 KiB) TX bytes:1152 (1.1 KiB)
Base address:0x2000 Memory:f0400000-f0420000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:535 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:535 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:35098 (34.2 KiB) TX bytes:35098 (34.2 KiB)

[soccercisco]

1) are you using a router?

2) you could try modifying your /etc/hosts.allow file with the ip addresses of the machines in the cluster.

again not an expert on networking, but I keep a close eye on the threads in order to learn.

[Heba Farouk]

thank u for caring
the problem was that e1000 module should be inserted each time the computer boots, it now can ping all the other machines

the question now is:

how can i insmod e1000 at startup??
(by the way, i'm using debian)

thanks again