[NTLUG:Discuss] Setting up Netscape on RH 6.1

[John Mauldin]

Hello,

I am connecting with no network card, from home, over a regular ISP phone
line to flash net in Fort Worth. Pretty simple setup right now.

Thanks

John

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From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of MadHat
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 3:02 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Setting up Netscape on RH 6.1


Daniel Shipman wrote:
>
> After I upgraded to 6.1 I had a similar problem - look at ifconfig and see
> if your eth0 stuff is correct - mine disappeared after the upgrade
>

Actually it may depend on how you are connecting.  When I connect via
modem from my laptop, it doesn't route properly until I disable the
ethernet card.  I know it has to do with the way I have my dialup
configured, but if I just 'ifconfig eth0 down' I am able to route
properly (I don't dial out much, so I don't bother fixing it)...  If you
have a local network and you don't want to shut down the ethernet (which
is usually prefered if you have a machine that is connected to your
local lan all the time), you may need to play with the routing to get it
to route out the ppp0 instead of trying to go through the ethernet card
when trying to get to the "real world" instead of a local machine.
Without more information it is dificult to say what the exact problem
is.
How are you connecting (modem, DSL, ISDN)?  Can you type in 'netstat
-rn' after connected and see what would look something like:
0.0.0.0         xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx    0.0.0.0         UG        0
0          0 ppp0

Where the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the gateway given to you by FN...
umm...  I know there are some things I am not thinking of...  but...

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