[NBLUG/talk] Help: Newbie and proxy server running SBS2000

[Jennifer Tracy]

Thanks to micxz I didn't have to type it all out by hand. :=)

I tried using dhcp and that didn't work so I gave it a static IP address.

I will look at the other commands you suggested.

Jenn


>From: Scott Doty <scott at sonic.net>
>Reply-To: talk at nblug.org
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Help: Newbie and proxy server running SBS2000
>Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:24:24 -0700
>
>On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:17:36PM -0700, troy wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:05:29PM -0700, Jennifer Tracy wrote:
> > > I do see something VERY similar to what you show below.   There were 
>no "RX
> > > packets" only "TX Packets".  I also see a second "batch" for something
> > > called "lo".
> > >
> > > I cannot ping my server which on the internal network is 10.0.0.2.
> > >
> >
> > You're doing great, Jenn :)
> >
> > Can you please post the output from ifconfig?
> > Also please post the output from the 'route' command (again as root)
>
>There's a slight problem with that:  if she's not networked, she'd have to
>type all that out by hand.  Ugh!
>
>Jenn, the most important part at this point is the IP address and Mask for
>eth0 from ifconfig.  (lo is the loopback interface, it will be 127.0.0.1 --
>no need to deal with that...)
>
>You might also want to run "mii-tool" as root, which will tell you your 
>link
>speed, link state, and duplex for your ethernet card.
>
>You should also inspect the contents of two files:  /etc/sysconfig/network
>and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 -- please make sure the 
>values
>in there are what you expect for your network.
>
>Also:  are you using dhcp?
>
>  -Scott
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