[Hampshire] IP address problem

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Author: Tim
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: [Hampshire] IP address problem

If I do a ifconfig on this PC I get the response

Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:7C:22:45
          inet addr:192.168.1.76  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:35856755 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:48136984 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:304410586 (290.3 MiB)  TX bytes:3022004192 (2.8 GiB)
          Interrupt:20 Base address:0x4000



So why is it if I go to another machine, and try and ping 192.168.1.76 I get
destination unreachable?? both PC have full network access, in fact I am on
the PC with IP 192.168.1.76 with a VNC connection into the other box. KDE
also reports my IP address as 192.168.1.76.

I think my IP address is 192.168.1.72 (the other PC can ping 72), I can't ping
by PC name as I don't have the host file setup (could never see the point for
four PC's).

I have only ever had the one network card in this PC

Any suggestion where I can check to find out what IP address I have and why
ifconfig is showing the wrong address??

I am running mepis 6.5 (which is a ubuntu base I beleive)

Tim