Subject: Re: Help getting TCP started
From: dsbelile (dsbelile@mediaone.net)
Date: Fri Sep 22 2000 - 18:17:33 MDT
check this : netstat -nr
[root@dsbelile /root]# netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
24.218.4.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 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 24.218.4.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
[root@dsbelile /root]#
make sure you actually have a gateway. . . . . this one happens to be a
firewall.
and make sure you can ping yourself and do nslookup www.yahoo.com or something.
if you cant you might want to replace pump with dhcp.
hope this helps, chris
John Springer wrote:
> I'm a new user bringing up my system on a powermac for the first time.
> TCP/IP isn't running properly.
> The system has retrieved the right IP adddress from the dhcp server, and has
> the right DNS servers in resolve.conf, but it can't ping anything.
>
> The ifconfig command shows that packets are being sent, but most receive
> packets are being discarded.
>
> Anyone know where I should look for the problem?
>
> --
> John Springer
> Portland's my home.
> Rain's a Good Thang.
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