Re: [Nolug] Help please

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 03:15, pltaylor wrote:
> I am having some trouble with one of my boxes connecting to websites.
>
> First the layout:
> adsl modem
> Dell GXa P2 233 running smoothwall as a firewall
> linksys 5 port switch
> dell i1100 laptop
> one home made box P4 1.6 running (I won't say it out loud)
> one home made box P4 3.0 with swappable drives 1:Libranet (debian base
> 2:Mandrake 10
>
> with the laptop or the 1.6 box I have no trouble connecting to anything.
> on the 3.0 box with the mandrake drive running I have no problem
> connecting to anything.
>
> with the libranet debian drive running I have trouble connecting to
> google and my banking site, that I have noticed so far.
>
> Now here is the weird part, If I connect the 3.0 box directly to the dsl
> modem I have no problem connecting to anything.
>
> I have static ip's assigned in the smoothwall setup.
>
> also have tried the mozilla, opera, & kong browsers and was still unable
> to connect.
>
> any ideas anyone?

>From the 3GHz box, can you ping the firewall?

If so, I'd want to see /etc/network/interfaces (strip out blank
lines and comments first), and the output of "/sbin/route -n".

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