cant ping external website

[Mark Haney]

Donny George wrote:
> well i was on the 10th net all this time
> 
> and now what i did was that i changed it to the main internet and put a
> cable directly frmo the router
> 
> and used the instruction
> 
> 
> ifconfig eth0 132.230.139.65 broadcast 132.230.139.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add default gw 132.230.139.254
> 
> 
> and now its working
> 
> 
> but i still dont understand why this wouldnt work with  the 10th net as i
> have other computers working with this
> 

Please don't top post.  No wonder I couldn't keep up with this thread. 
AS I just posted I think this has to do with the broadcast mask you 
setup on the 10.x.x.x network.  unless that's a type that broadcast IP 
would just die on a 10.x.x.x network.




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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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