Xref: news-dnh.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:226 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Path: news-dnh.mv.net!mv!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!stanb From: stanb AT netcom DOT com (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: Help with TCP/IP package Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 01:32:56 GMT Lines: 22 Sender: stanb AT netcom23 DOT netcom DOT com To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Dj-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp stanb AT netcom DOT com (Stan Brown) writes: > I am trying to get the djgpp TCP/IP package to work. So far I have >obtained a packet driver for my card (a 3COM Etherlink III 3C589B) and >managed to get the library compiled. Now when I run the ping program that >came with the package to test it I get the error message >"Can't resolve Host Address" > I am unshure wheteher this refers to >the local or the remote address. I think this is probably a configuration >problem. Here is the config file: I;m folowing up to my own post to clarify some things here. Several people have said that I can't ping by name withou a nameserver. This is tru, *but* I am pingin by IP address. Also the host I am pinging is on the ame local network as my PC runnning the TCP package. I have tries with & without the gateway entry in the config file. ny help on this would be appreciate. -- Stan Brown stanb AT netcom DOT com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Windows, the only computer virus to take up 20 megs of RAM | ------------------------------------------------------------------