[TriLUG] PPPoE, adsl connection, RH 7.3

[Richard O. Hammer]

Steven,

Thank you.  What is a gateway and how would I know if one were
set up?


Steven Blanchard wrote:
> 
> I think that you are right to be suspicious, because the default route
> determines where net bound packets will go, is there a gateway set up on
> eth0? that might be the cause of your troubles.
> 
> ~Steven Blanchard
> 
> Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> > I can't do anything with this internet connection.  When I
> > try:
> > ping trilug.org , it responds
> >   ping: unknown host trilug.org
> >
> > And when I try ping 63.162.197.69  (the earthlink DNS server)
> > it responds
> >   PING 63.162.197.69  from 192.168.0.2 : 56 bytes of data
> >   From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
> >   ...
> >
> >
> > So it looks to me like perhaps my machine is identifying
> > itself to the earthlink server as 192.168.0.2 instead of as
> > 63.173.123.59, which is probably a mistake.