Well, we have one of two computers recognizing the internet. The Red Hat 6.1 workstation installation required that we change the setting in netbios to "other os", at which it recognized the IRQ setting. Also, our ISP gave us the following settings: ip=207.234.111.66 network=207.234.111.64 netmask=255.255.255.224 gateway=207.234.111.65 with a series of ip's from 64 through 96. What worked was: ip=207.234.111.66 network=207.234.111.0 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=207.234.111.65. Does this make sense? We can now use lynx to connect to the internet on Red Hat. On the Debian 2.2 sever installation, linux recognizes eth0 on IRQ10 at startup, but will not successfully ping the gateway at 207.234.111.65. It does ping 207.234.111.66=ip and 207.234.111.0=network?. It does not ping 207.234.111.64=network as assigned by ISP. This post is not so much asking for help as it is just documenting a real world newbie installation that may be helpful to others. Thanks to all for your help. Jake Brooks ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
