Setting up network details...
Irving, Dave
Dave.Irving at logicacmg.com
Sat Feb 26 12:39:27 UTC 2005
> /sbin/ifconfig -a
Brilliant - thanks - that's exactly what I needed.
What's that output of "netstat -rn"
Destiantion Gateway Genmask
158.234.64.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0
0.0.0.0 158.234.64.1 0.0.0.0
> and what did you put in /etc/sysconfig/network?
I added:
GATEWAY=158.234.64.1
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Howarth [mailto:paul at city-fan.org]
Sent: 26 February 2005 12:33
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Setting up network details...
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 12:27 +0000, Irving, Dave wrote:
> Just installed Fedora - and Im trying to get my network settings sorted
out.
> I've gone to the "Network Configuration" utility and set it up to use
> DHCP to get me an IP.
> First question: How do I find out what IP it's given me so I can reach
> my box from other machines? (Playing around with ping will only give
> me localhost.localdomain and 127.0.0.1).
/sbin/ifconfig -a
will show you details of all your interfaces.
> Im also not able to ping external addresses currently. Is this related
> to the Default Gateway?
> I've added the default gateway used by my XP box to my
> etc/sysconfig/network file and rebooted, but I still cant ping
> machines outside my works network (I can reach boxes within the network
tho).
Quite likely. However, your DHCP server *should* be giving you the right
gateway.
What's that output of "netstat -rn", and what did you put in
/etc/sysconfig/network?
> I've googled around a bit - but cant really find any guides for this
> (maybe Im looking in the wrong places). If anyone knows of something I
> could read to help get this sorted, or give me any advice it'd be most
appreciated.
There's also a GUI tool for setting up networking: system-config-network
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