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Greetings,
I have recently made my first
foray into Debian. Being a linux newbie, the entire experience has been filled
with a great deal of learning. That said, I've run into an odd issue that I
haven't been able to resolve via HOWTO or through older mailing list
posts.
I am using the current Debian
release (Woody 3.0r2), using a bootable CD-ROM with the disk 1 .iso image. What
happens is pretty simple to explain:
My network card (I'll use my
3c905B-TX as an example, since I've used several in the course of trying to get
this to work) is successfully picking up an IP address and DNS information from
my router (which serves as a firewall and DHCP server). Looking at resolv.conf
shows me a list of valid DNS servers. I am able to ping the other three
Windows-based boxes on my LAN (same subnet as this box). However, any attempt to
resolve an internet address or to go outside of the router meets with a generic
'network is unreachable' error.
route add -net default gw 209.xxx.xxx.xxx also
returned a 'network is unreachable' error. Essentially, I am seeing my LAN boxes
fine, but am completely unable to go past my firewall. Before anyone asks, yes,
it's properly punched. All external ports and connections are
allowed.
I've tried installing with both the 2.2 kernel and
2.4.18 kernel accessed via F3 at boot: , and the results are the same -- the
internal network is reachable, but anything past there, or any attempt to
manually add routing information fails.
dhcp.leases shows lease information, and attempts
to manually set the device (eth0) give the same results. ifconfig attempts
return an active ethernet device that looks properly configured, with the proper
IPs (though, the MTU is set to 1492).
Does anyone have any ideas, here? I've been banging
my head against the wall on this one for 2 days.
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