only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread pplaw
debs, i have a box that won't load potato, so i installed slink for booting purposes. now, from the net, i want to install the custom packages from potato. however, i can't ping my box's ip addy (nor any other ip addy on my network). but, i can ping localhost. the nic is good--works with

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
what does /sbin/route display? also, i hope you aren't trying to use the 192.168.1.xxx address directly. i.e. i hope that your DSL router, or your NAT router sits between your machine and the net. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread pplaw
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:55:58PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: what does /sbin/route display? // cat /sbin/route gives me garbage characters. (am i using the wrong command?) // also, i hope you aren't trying to use the 192.168.1.xxx address directly. i.e. i hope that your DSL router, or your

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach pplaw (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:26:42PM +): cat /sbin/route gives me garbage characters. (am i using the wrong command?) just run /sbin/route. actually, run /sbin/route -n martin ps: garbage characters... the file starts out with ^?ELF which indicates that it is a binary

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread pplaw
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:29:35PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach pplaw (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:26:42PM +): cat /sbin/route gives me garbage characters. (am i using the wrong command?) just run /sbin/route. actually, run /sbin/route -n martin ps: garbage

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach pplaw (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:52:32PM +): Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 01 lo well, you aren't routing anything via eth0. this may be due to a configuration

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread Rick Rezinas
/sbin/route is an executable. run it and it should give a little table with routes. rick On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, pplaw wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:55:58PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: what does /sbin/route display? // cat /sbin/route gives me garbage characters. (am i using the wrong

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread pplaw
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:52:49PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach pplaw (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:52:32PM +): Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 01 lo well, you aren't

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
now i just need to specify my isp's dns's (207.76.102.251/252). (i forget where that's specified. locate *dns* gave me cold leads.) where do i set that? /etc/resolv.conf are you using a laptop or a desktop? i am assuming the latter, so please do a man interfaces to find out how to

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread pplaw
debs, please ignor prior messageproblem resolved. (i didn't enter martin's suggestion exactly like he wrote and i got the wrong results. his info was right on the money! thanks!) i can ping all key players--myself, the lan, and the isp(i didn't know pinging could be this

Re: only localhost ping in slink

2001-03-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach pplaw (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 04:09:33PM +): i can ping all key players--myself, the lan, and the isp(i didn't know pinging could be this beautiful). true. true. martin, thanks again. no prob. someone helped me with that too at one point. since then i can do routing tables