Re: Test the network

[Donald Spoon <dspoon@astcomm.net>]

Piero wrote:
> I believe I have, after many pains, istalled the network. But I have not 
> installed X window. How can I test if it works?
>
> (My box is connected to my Isp line through a Nat box that cotains a 
> dhcp server).
>
> Thanks,
> Piero.

Ping some sites outside your local network.  This will probably tell you 
all you want to know, and can help pin-point the location(s) of any 
difficulty.

In fact there are several command-line programs that make use of the 
internet... Lynx, ftp, telnet, traceroute, dig, host, etc.  Any of these 
would work for you, but I think the "ping" program is probably the most 
useful diagnostic to see if it is working.  Other "diagnostics" that I 
use to locate networking problems are "ifconfig" and "route".  These two 
help find problems on the config and/or setup of your machine(s).

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-