On Tue, 27 May 2003, M. Fioretti wrote: > Hello, > > I have a laptop running shrike connected via ethernet to my desktop, > which is connected to the internet via 56K dial up. > > The desktop can surf the internet just fine. The ethernet link between > the two PCs is fine also: I can ping and ssh from both. > > I can't surf the net from the laptop, however. I've done this in the > past, so I know (I think) the involved steps. My questions are: > > 1) I have the printed manuals here, but don't see a GUI way to add > routes. What should I suggest to folks scared of the command line? > redhat-config-??what?? How about redhat-config-network?? select the interface you are working on and then do edit->route. I think that is what you want. > 2) using route -n I see also: > > 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > > where does this come from? the config scripts. set NOZEROCONF=1 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* I do not know of a way to disable it via GUI. HTH, -- ......Tom CLUELESSNESS: There Are No Stupid Questions, But tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx There Are LOTS of Inquisitive Idiots. :-) Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org
