I searched both networking section and here, and couldn't find a solution that'd work for me... so I figured I'd ask. Would be great if anyone could either help me out or point to the place to read about it.

Here's a quick rundown: I have Slackware 9.1 machine, connected to the hub, which in turn is connected to a DSL modem. This setup worked great for me and I used pppoe software provided by my ISP.

Everything worked perfectly (except DNS resolve was kinda slow but thats another story) until the day that I tried to connect it with another linux machine on LAN, and tampered with netconfig.

Now no matter what I do, I can't connect to the internet.. I tried to change the config files in rc.d, tried to change /etc/resolv.conf, ran netconfig many times over and over again to no avail.
I can still connect using the pppoe software and the status script shows that I'm connected.

Could anyone help me out?

Thanks a lot!

Can you ping by number i.e


ping 66.94.230.43 (one of yahoo's)

Yup:

64 bytes from 66.94.230.43: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=74.9 ms

have you checked your /etc/resolv.conf file
make sure that your infor is correct in there.

Sorry for the newbie question, but what kind of info should be in there?

if you check in /etc/ppp/resolv.conf


it'll probably have your dns servers in it


My work around, delete /etc/resolve.conf and create a link to the ppp one


ln -s /etc/ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

nameservers.
example.
...................................................
search verizon.net
66.94.230.43
66.94.220.44
...................................................
They will be specific to your isp

Right, gonna try that, thanks!

I think what netconfig did is it removed nameserver entries from resolv.config .. I'm now kicking myself for not noticing this sooner.

Thanks again