Hi all,

I am having a difficulty getting internet access.
The machine is partitioned and running xp and fedora. No problems under xp.

Under Fedora, I can see web sites that are local, the school's web sites...etc.
But nothing else.
Here's some output:

~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:72:2A:28:86
inet addr:160.129.209.70 Bcast:160.129.209.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:72ff:fe2a:2886/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:19334 (18.8 KiB) TX bytes:1881 (1.8 KiB)
Interrupt:177

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:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)


~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
160.129.209.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 160.129.209.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


and i did a traceroute to a google ip just for the heck of it:

~$ traceroute 64.233.179.99
traceroute to 64.233.179.99 (64.233.179.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 160.129.209.1 (160.129.209.1) 0.250 ms 0.206 ms 0.201 ms
2 160.129.1.13 (160.129.1.13) 0.297 ms 0.236 ms 0.228 ms
3 * * *
4 * * *

Any suggestions you might have will be great.
Thank you.

ok, you're giving a problem based on a very high level view of the network, a web browser depends on a lot of other things, which we'd need to explore.

1) can you ping google.com?
2) can you run "curl http://google.com" ?
3) do you have valid name servers in /etc/resolv.conf?

from the traceroute it would suggest a firewall or routing issue further up the path, maybe there is no return path to that network from where the *'s start?

Try Network Device Control in the menu. Setup the hardware, the ISP, username and password etc. Answer all the questions in the window. YOU may need to scroll down to see all the window questions. This could possibly be repeated information from an installation attempt to setup YOUR networking for YOUR distro during the install. I feel YOUR pain. The Network Device Control setup is effective and works. It is worth the time and trouble. As mentioned, the Firewall and router could also be disrupting online access.