Simple Network Question: Part 2

[Athmane Madjoudj]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Dennis Mattingly
<dennismattinglyzzark at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have (another) simple question involving my router.
>
> Is this a Linux Bug, or simply a Bad Router?
>
> 1) My internet is perfect (normal setup)
> 2) Plug my computer internet directly into ethernet router
> 3) $ ping 192.168.1.1
> network is unreachable
>
> So, is this my router, do I need to turn-off network manager, Linux bug,
> what next?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>

Some router (like mine) has a different ip (192.168.1.254)

To discover your router's ip :

$ route

or

Discover all active ip on your network using nmap:
$ nmap -sP 192.168.1.1-254

NB:
Some router has a firewall that block ICMP traffic (pings)


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Athmane Madjoudj