Internet Access problems in Fedora Core 4 1136

Snooz;

Thanks a lot for such a detailed and informative response. Much appriciated mate.

Ok, Firstly as per your advise i tried to access google through the raw ipaddress. Actually it did not help, there was an error message. Hence that failed. I at that point thought that there is a problem with the os not being able to see the DNS. I did not check if the email is working or not. I buttumed it wont.

As per the your second option i checked my etc-resolv.conf file. This was done to see if my DNS was misconfigured. The only entry i found there was:

search localdomain

I tried putting the proxy address as a value to nameserver, buttuming that it would be working as my DNS caching server. I then tried to access google.com from firefox. It did not help either, so i buttume that my proxy is just a web proxy and not a DNS server.

I then checked if my browser proxy configuration was set to direct connection to internet, it actually was set to that. So i went ahead and changed it to setting proxy manually, and entered my proxy address, i was not sure of the port so i enetered 80. I tried to access goole.com again. It falied once again.

Asper your fourth option, i checked to see if my ethernet card was really up and running. Here is what i found. ( I d used eth1 becasue i have two LAN interfaces and this is the one i m using on XP and fedora core 4.)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:D0:81:4F:64 inet addr:192.168.0.66 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe81:4f64-64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe880

( *** Concern 1- Values of RX packets and TX packets is zero, is that normal)

I then tried pinging 64.233.179.99 ( google.com)

PING 64.233.179.99 (64.233.179.99) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 64.233.179.99 ping statistics --- 15 packets transmitted, 0 received, +12 errors, 100% packet loss, time 14000ms , pipe 4

( *** Concern - 2 Host was not reachable, why if i may ask)

I then tried to ping my loopback ip (lo) by using:

PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=0 ttl=64 time=0.151 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=1 ttl=64 time=0.122 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=2 ttl=64 time=0.112 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=3 ttl=64 time=0.122 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=4 ttl=64 time=0.122 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=5 ttl=64 time=0.107 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=6 ttl=64 time=0.118 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=7 ttl=64 time=0.109 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=8 ttl=64 time=0.117 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=9 ttl=64 time=0.114 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=10 ttl=64 time=0.133 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=11 ttl=64 time=0.133 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=12 ttl=64 time=0.116 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=13 ttl=64 time=0.108 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=14 ttl=64 time=0.117 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=15 ttl=64 time=0.140 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=16 ttl=64 time=0.138 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=17 ttl=64 time=0.140 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmpseq=18 ttl=64 time=0.108 ms

--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- 19 packets transmitted, 19 received, 0% packet loss, time 17997ms rtt min-avg-max-mdev = 0.107-0.122-0.151-0.016 ms, pipe 2 You have mail invar-spool-mail-root

( *** Concern - 3, as you could see that pinging the loopback interface did work. Is that a normal occurance, if it is then why it failed to reach 64.233.179.99 (google.com)

Now since i can not reach out to 64.233.179.99, i m buttuming that there is absolutely nothing working. I m buttuming there is a problem with my ethenet interface configuration. There may also be an ill configured routing table, it can be checked with netstat -rn, but i dont know what to see there and how to correct it if it is incorrect.

There can also be a possibility that device configuration with ifconfig is not functioning properly( RX and TX values being 0 gives that clue). Please suggest if my ip, broadcast and subnet mask addresses are defined properly. Also please shed some light on my concerns stated above.

As far as name resolution is concerned i guess i should put proper info in resolv.conf file and-or change the rote to the name server. How can i do that? I guess i d need your help there.

Please help!!!

Thnak you and Kind Regards. j,aldin