``So, where is it? ;-)'' /ravi (i.e output from perl)
It's over on the Ubuntu partition. Ubuntu has a copy of my xp files, but I can't figure out how to mount the xp partition, or find that xp file system. When I did accidently find xp files they were marked Read-Only. Remember, I am working with out a manual on Ubuntu. Back in the BSD days, I could mount Win95 disk as a directory and import/export win95 files from BSD. I am sure Ubuntu does something like that, but I don't know how just yet.
``what's the topology of your home network?'' .d.
It's me, one box, DSL ethernet card going to a DSL modem and out on a phone line. (ADSL modem, SpeedSream 5360, which I think is a bridge-modem. The provider doesn't run PPPoE). If I ever get back to a home network, then its physcial topology would be a bus via a hub box, which in turn was connected to a main box that in turn went to printer and internet services.
I skipped the NAT box and NAT server, because I could make BSD as a localnet name server by writing a fixed local address system and listing it in the /etc/hosts file.
``Why does it have a static IP address?'' .d.
In Ubuntu, I picked the static IP configuration, because my internet provider told me to back when I switched to DSL. He wrote:
``PPP doesn't have any relevance to our DSL, we are *not* PPPoE. You just configure you IP address below on an ethernet port just as you would on a LAN, and point the default router to the DSL modem connected to it online..''
BTW I tested ping to the static IP address and got 0 returns, and total packet loss.
``So, what is the connection to the Internet? Is it eth0 or eth1? What is it connected to?'' /ravi
The onboard eth0 isn't currently connected to anything, since I don't have another box or hub network system. It broadcasts (I think) to a potential home network. The eth1 is connected to the DSL modem and has the static address.
``Some types of 'netstat' output includes socket information, but I just want the routing table ('netstat -nr').'' /ravi
Okay here it is. I have to hand copy it so the format might be off.
cgrimes at fx1:-$ netstat -nr Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt iface 198.144.209.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255/255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 198.144.209.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Now the result of the perl script to ping the Gateway and then the internal net system. Gateway first, then internal:
PING 198.144.209.1 (198.144.209.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>From 198.144.209.12 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 198.144.209.12 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 198.144.209.12 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 198.144.209.1 ping statics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 200ms, pipe 3 PING 0.0.0.0 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.016 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.016 ms 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.016 ms
--- 0.0.0.0 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms rtt minn/avg//max/mdev = 0.015/0.016/0.019/0.005 ms
The cat /etc/resolve.conf returned the correct DNS address:
nameserver 198.144.192.4
``So here's an IP address for www.google.com: 64.233.169.99. Can you ping it? Let us make sure that you have IP connectivity.''
Hang on. I have to close out XP and get over to Ubuntu... Pinged the google address and got the same ping statistics, 8 transmit, 0 received.
BTW, I appreciate this exchange. It is very helpful to reorient my brain back to unix style thinking.
CG