Re: ping problem ...

you may need to include ip address and host name in the /etc/hosts

onkar wrote:
I am configuring ADSL connection on my Linux box
every thing goes fine - network activated but ...

$ ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
-----no response ----



here are the files which might be helpful in debugging ...

$cat /etc/resolv.conf
# MADE-BY-RP-PPPOE
nameserver 203.94.227.70
nameserver 203.94.243.70
nameserver 192.168.1.1

$cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain my_computer localhost

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