Hello,
I have a LAN cable connected to my computer from the router which is connected to a cable modem connection and the computer says it is connected and i can ping web sites but i can't get any web sites when i open up a browser. I am using mandrake 10. Can anyone help me here please?

Welcome to LQ.

Can you post the output from:
route -n
ifconfig
cat /etc/resolv.conf

Hi:

If you can successfully ping say, www.yahoo.com, but cannot view any websites then I would look to see that my browser was properly configured. For example, check any entries for gateways.

Have you tried accessing the Internet with a text browser like Lynx? Are you using a proxy server?

Thanks for the replies. Yes i actually could ping www.yahoo.com. How do you check the browser (firefox) for gateway entries?

Just check the entries for connection settings in firefox at
Edit > preferences
Have you given the right entries for direct internet connection that you have ?
By the way, send the output of your /etc/resolv.conf.
Please dont forget to remove any entries that go like

nameserver 192......

Here is what is in resolv.conf:

search nsw.optushome.com.au
nameserver 203.2.75.132
nameserver 102.168.0.1

Do i have to remove the words nameserver?

This is what i get from route- n and iwconfig:

[root@localhost root]# route -n

Kernel IP routing table

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

102.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

0.0.0.0 102.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


[root@localhost root]# ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

inet addr:102.168.0.199 Bcast:102.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::fdff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:31 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3728 (3.6 Kb) TX bytes:4291 (4.1 Kb)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6418 (6.2 Kb) TX bytes:6418 (6.2 Kb)

try :
ping 203.2.75.132

102.168.0.1 is your cable modem`s IP?

I could ping 203.2.75.132 no problems and i could ping 102.168.0.1 which i am sure is the router. It says in windows that 102.168.0.1 is the default gateway.

Your network confoguration is fine.

Try 'telnet www.google.com 80'
and type 'GET / HTTP/1.0' (without quotes)

102.168.*.* is a _very_ strange network address to be using. Make absolutely sure it 's not supposed to be 192.168.*.*

I agree with baldy3105; you are using a very odd IP address. That said, if you can ping external sites like yahoo, etc. then I would say your network is working fine and the problem is your browser...Firefox.

Go to either Edit>Preferrences or Tool>Options and click on the connections tab. Make sure that you are not set up to try and go through a proxy server. I would set Firefox to "Automatically Detect Network Settings."

crw128, it is probably because you have ipv6 enabled. Try disabling it with:
echo "alias net-pf-10 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf

Then reboot the machine.

Your a legend mate. It worked. Thank you.