Hello all-

I am running dual boot Redhat 7.1 and NT/2000. I am not familiar with many commands, and up until this point have just used the redhat for accessing work data at remote sites. I am now wanting to use it more on the desktop at work, so I need help getting onto the internet. We currently have a network in the office that has mostly windows pc's on it, but a few macs, & ties into a SCO point of sale network. I know that the computer recognizes the SCO server, because I can get it to respond to ftp commands (I think!) If anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it. Just let me know what I need to do/look for.

Thanks!

Jeremy

First of all, how do normally connect to the Internet? Telephone? Cable? DSL?

The SCO website has had a lot of downtime lately. Perhaps this is your problem?

I normally connect to the internet through an ISDN connection.

I don't think that it's an issue of the SCO website, I am pretty sure that the SCO is housed solely on our server if that makes any sense.

Do you use DHCP? Does the server assign you an IP address automatically?

Type /sbin/ifconfig in a console, and check the settings for eth0 (your network card).

I'm presuming, as you talk about other computers in the office, that the ISDN connection to the internet is via a server?

Dave

I believe that we have static IP addresses on all of our desktops. I will reboot in redhat and try typing the/sbin/ifconfig and find out what comes up. Thanks for answering my question & helping me out.

Dave-
I tried the /sbin/ifconfig and here's what it came up with for my eth0:
inet addr: 192.168.1.208 (which seems correct, as that's my windows network ip)
Bcast: 192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0

I'm not sure where to go beyond that.

Thanks!

Jeremy

What's your network's default gateway?

you may neet to add the dfault gateway...
#route add default gw 192.198.x.x (where the 192.168.x.x is your network's default gateway, which is probably the ISDN router)

I believe that the default gateway (at least on the windows side of things) is 192.168.1.1 I'm too new at this to know just where I should put that in the setup. I appreciate all the help and everyone's patience with me trying to understand all of this.

Check the other Windows PC's TCP/IP configuration for the default gateway or ask your net admin.

I checked two other windows computers, and it is correct, the default gateway is 192.168.1.1 I am just not sure where that is entered into the Redhat side of things. About asking the net admin...the problem is that seems to be me

#route add default gw 192.198.1.1

will add the gateway

--dubman