More help needed please

[alan]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 jim.marnell at cca-int.com wrote:

> Anyone else care to take a stab at why my rh 8 box with 2 nics cannot talk 
> to each other. I'll try anything.
> eth0 can ping itself
> eth1 can ping itself
> eth0 can ping eth1
> eth1 CANNOT ping eth0
>  
> ip_forward has been set to 1
>  
> The only odd thing I can find is the absence of messages at startup 
> regarding eth0 - could be normal since eth0 can ping the other nic and 
> also other boxes.
> [root at redfish root]# tail -400 /var/log/messages|grep -i eth1
> Jun 24 10:16:01 redfish network: Bringing up interface eth1:  succeeded 
> Jun 24 13:57:10 redfish network: Bringing up interface eth1:  succeeded 
> [root at redfish root]# tail -400 /var/log/messages|grep -i eth0
> [root at redfish root]# 

What does "netstat -r" return?

Do you have iptables filters getting in the way?