ethernet connection to my college LAN

[Andrew Kelly]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 11:32, shatam bhattacharya wrote:
> 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 ???

This is starting to sound like a firewall issue, innit?

What's the output of 'iptables -L'?
If you get an error because iptables isn't running, make sure that
that ugly chains crud isn't in the way by running 'lokkit' and taking
appropriate steps.

Andy