present efforts on my HP laptop

[John Kohler]

Mark,
Thanks for the advice.  I'll read the assignment, and also step back 
from the issue for a couple of days.  Thanks, also, for the encouragement.

John

Mark Street wrote:

>I think a little reading assignment is in order.
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>http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/
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>Step back a for a day or two John, take inventory of what is going on then
>come back at it fresh.  Start from square 1 and take it forward.  Take a
>look at all the help you have been provided with here categorize it and
>try to put it all in some sort of context.
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>Don't worry, we have all been where you are.... this too shall pass.
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>On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, John Kohler wrote:
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>>I am not sure who it was who asked me what the response to this command
>>would be:
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>>netstat -r
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>>I did try the command, as root level operator, and got the following:
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>>Destination  Gateway  Genmask           Flags  MSS  Window  irtt   iface
>>192.168.0.0     *            255.255.255.0      U      40      0
>>   0      eth0
>>127.0.0.0        *             255.0.0.0               U      40     0
>>          0      lo
>>default            *             0.0.0.0                   UG   40     0
>>           0       eth0
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>>Right upon starting this command the first 2 come right up.  The default
>>one takes about 30 seconds to appear.  Which is strange, I think.
>>
>>Once again this is with the static setting of the eth0 configuration.
>> DHCP doesn't work on the laptop at all.  It doesn't even establish contact.
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>>Strangely, at this point the router is not configured for static, nor is
>>the other computer on the router, an iMac.
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>>John
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>>>>>if that works and pinging
>>>>>the domain name doesn't work, then maybe you don't have your dns
>>>>>lookup setup. i believe the file is /etc/resolve.conf if that's not
>>>>>it, then you should be able to GUI it with netconf. it may be that you
>>>>>have to set it up on your router first.
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>>>>I can get access to the router software from the iMac.  I can put the
>>>>http:// in with the address 192.168.0.1 using Netscape or Mozilla and a
>>>>router page appears with buttons for LAN and WAN, installation wizard, etc.
>>>>I am not sure how to set something up on the router for the hp laptop,
>>>>though.
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>>>well i was thinking if you set the proper dns addresses up on the
>>>router, and your default route on the laptop is the router, then
>>>requests for domain names should flow from your laptop to the router,
>>>and from the router to the proper dns machines.
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>>>so if there is an option in the router config to set dns addresses i
>>>would do that.
>>>
>>>-augie
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