Re: [Staffslug] That puzzler....
On 17/10/2007, Matthew <m(a)ingsoc.eu> wrote:
In theory that would really only stop you accessing other networks
in
the same /16 as you..
That's about what I thought... as far as my knowledge of TCP/IP goes.
I am admittedly very rusty :-(
Can you ping your default gateway? Do you have an arp entry for it?
Ah, didn't even bother trying that... I should have tried pinging the router.
Can you ping a random host on the internet that you know responds?
Now that I did try. I gave the Ubuntu forums a go and Yahoo Mail.
Yahoo had been responding fine all morning and it did so when I popped
the HDD back in place. Nothing from either host with the live CD,
either CD too.
If all that works - can you resolve hostnames?
Sorry, now I'm lost... I should know and did know but cannot remember
the difference between a host and host name.
Are you using a cable router which may limit service to a specific
ethernet card.?
Nope, it's a standard phone line router (on BT network). It works
fine with the hard drive in place and booted from that. Same router
etc, etc. It's just these two Linux live CD's. Which Ubuntu at least
does work with another PC coming through to the exact same router...
I couldn't try the Sabayon one due to it needing more graphics memory
than that particular PC has at present. That last will change very
soon :-)
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire