cant ping external website

[Derek Broughton]

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
 
How do you expect us to either understand or explain, when you just keep
telling us what _you've_ done, but don't answer the questions we've asked?

The _simplest_ answer would be that you can't talk to the outside world
unless your gateway is doing Network Address Translation - at least, the
outside world isn't going to respond to a 10.*.*.* address.  But just as
likely is the incorrect broadcast address, as Mark noted.
-- 
derek