ethernet connection to my college LAN

[shatam bhattacharya]

Thanks Rick for the advice but the problem persits the following were the results
>The odds are that you don't have the default route set up. Do
>"netstat -rn" and verify that you have a line that has "0.0.0.0" >in the
>first column.

 
Netstat -rn

Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface

172.31.64.0  0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 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

0.0.0.0      172.31.65.21 0.0.0.0 UG  0 0  0 eth0

 
>The default route is normally contained in the /etc/sysconfig/network
>file as the "GATEWAY=" equate. Here's an example:
>NETWORKING=yes
>HOSTNAME=prophead.corp.publichost.com
>GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
>If you don't have a default route, you can add one using this command:
>route add -default gw ip-addr-of-your-gateway
>For example, to set up the default route as if it were in the network
>file:
>route add -default gw 192.168.0.1
 

contents of /etc/syconfig/network

NETWORKING=yes

HOSTNAME=ginie

GATEWAY=172.31.65.21

 

By the way while installing rhl 9 I had installed 

http server, dns, smb and nfs. Can they affect the ethernet connection even remotely ???

bye shatam


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