Re: Continuing internet oddities
cothrige wrote:
>> When you expect a connection to have been established, what is the
>> output of these commands:
>>
>> $> route -n
>> $> ifconfig -a
>> $> cat /etc/resolv.conf
>
> BTW, I had to run this as root, even though it appears you were
> expecting a user account to work, but I could not get it to that way.
My bad, the command are in /sbin/ directory, so you would try "/sbin/route".
> But, in any case, here is what I get:
>
> For 'route -n':
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.15.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.15.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
So your router's LAN address is 192.168.15.1. Is that correct? You can
check this by opening your router's web configuration page. OR, you can
also try on your wife's laptop (which IIRC runs Windows and works fine)
and open a command prompt terminal and give the command "ipconfig" (or
"ipconfig /all" for more details) and paste the output here. We will see
if things are working right or not.
> For 'ifconfig -a':
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:6A:23:86:A3
> inet addr:192.168.15.100 Bcast:192.168.15.255
You are on the same subnet as the router. So that is fine.
> Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::20b:6aff:fe23:86a3/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Your mtu is 1500. ADSL modems cannot have larger than 1492. But your
router should take care of that. We will ignore this; this hasn't
bothered me in my experience.
> RX packets:12450 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:11713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:11811320 (11.2 MiB) TX bytes:1723885 (1.6 MiB)
> Interrupt:169 Base address:0xdc00
Looks fine, no hardware errors here.
>
> For 'cat /etc/resolv.conf':
> search launchmodem.com
> nameserver 192.168.1.254
I don't get this. Your nameserver is on a completely different subnet.
Is should be 192.168.15.1 if I am not mistaken. This mistake can result
in long delays in pages loading ... actually nothing should work. But
browsing with ip addresses should work. In other works, this shouldn't
work properly:
$> ping yahoo.com
but this should work as expected:
$> ping 4.2.2.2
Try the following: Add these lines to this file (before the nameserver
you already have):
nameserver 192.168.15.1
nameserver 4.2.2.2
and try browsing again.
->HS
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