Re: Network connection diagnostics


Moe Trin wrote:
Followup-To set to comp.os.linux.networking - not applicable to
comp.os.linux.misc - and a stretch for comp.os.linux.setup

On 18 Sep 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<1158645950.917227.275410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Marco A. Cruz Quevedo
wrote:

Is there a quick or practical way to check a network connection? I
mean, to get IP, gateway address, etc, and to know what is going wrong.

/sbin/ifconfig -a
/sbin/route -n
cat /etc/resolv.conf

When I just log on, I cannot get to internet, unles I manually issue
ifdown eth0, ifup eth0, service network restart.

What distribution - what release? What type of connection to the ISP?

Fedora Core 3, connection is DSL
I found that before issuing the commands mentioned above, I can access
internet if I type IP addresses instead of urls. !? Would this be a
clue?


This sounds as if your network configuration scripts are not set correctly,
but there isn't enough information to tell which one[s].

Perhaps, because this happened after upgrading some RPMS. :-(



Old guy

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