No internet connection

[Brian Tilley]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Di, den 30.03.2004 schrieb Brian Tilley um 17:38:
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>>Hi,
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>>When I try to run either 'route' or 'iptables' I get a 'command not 
>>found' error message. When I go to the sbin directory and try it there I 
>>get the same error message. When I open both "route' and 'iptables' in 
>>vi I see a bunch of weird symbols???????. The /etc/hosts file seems to 
>>be OK, with both localhost and my domain listed.
>>
>>Brian
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>route and iptables are binaries, no text files. Log in as root
>correctly! Either on console directly as root, or become root using su
>with the proper command "su -" (see man su). Having not root login shell
>but only a shell and you change directory to /sbin you have to run the
>command with a leading ./ like ./route.
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>Alexander
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I am logged in as su (no one else uses this machine). When using the 
prefix './' in /sbin I get the following:
Kernel  IP  routing  table
Destination              Gateway                Genmask                
Flags  Metric  Ref   Use  Iface
142.179.210.232    142.179.210.232   255.255.255.248   UG     0          
0       0    eth0
142.179.210.232     0.0.0.0                  255.255.255.248   U        
0          0       0    eth0
169.254.0.0             0.0.0.0                  255.255.0.0           
U        0          0       0    eth0
127.0.0.0                 0.0.0.0                  
255.0.0.0               U        0          0       0     lo

Brian