New server on my work lan, cannot ping to it on get on internet.
 

Hi,

my first message.

please could someone point me to some reading material as I am happy to go through a newbie guide related to my problem. Or help me in this thread.

Completed my first RedHat install on an hold Desktop PC, to help me learn a non MS operating system.

I have plugged it into my work network (via a CISCO router) .

The server successfully collects primary and secondary DNS server IP addresses so it must be talking to my work network to a fashion.

but I cannot get onto the Internet when using my work proxy information I use for my browser on my windows system.

and also (probably causing the above) cannot ping or see my new server on the network.

during the installation of the firewall I clicked all the options to allow incoming FTP, HTTP etc.

But I have not gone into the Firewall application and added a rule (do I have to do this?)

Thank you for your time in advance.

Lee
SAS Institute
U.K.

Why not ask the network administrator at your place of work?

Since it has got the nameservers presumably it has been allocated an ip using DHCP. I can't think of anything obvious reasons why it dosn't work.

What does your ifconfig -a look like, especially compared to Windows machines getting addresses from the same DHCP server ?