Hello all,

I have a very unusual problem here. I am experienced in networking and it has me stumped. I just installed SuSE 8.2 with an on-board ASUS ethernet card. Had to download the driver from ASUS to get it working, no problem. I can ping, ftp, surf the web, etc. I am going through a netgear router to DSL to the net. Here is the strange part. I can get to some web sites (usatoday, suse, etc..) but CANNOT get to others (cnn, google). I can ping google no problem and both google and cnn get resolved so it is not a DNS issue. I am very confused. I have tried DHCP as well as hard coding an IP address. If anyone has experienced this and fixed it, PLEASE let me know. BTW, I have windows machines on the same lan that can get to all of these sites no problem.

Thanks in advance,
Charles

I would check iptables (or your firewall) and make sure you havent somehow blocked access to those sites.....this is what it sounds like to me.

Well,

Believe it or not.. this strange symptom was being caused by my onboard NIC card. I dissabled the ASUS motherboard NIC card, dropped a generic Intel card in, booted, configured, and BAM, can see all the web sites. Will wonders never cease.

See ya,
Charles