On Wednesday 02 Jul 2008, kamal wrote:
Alternately, before connecting to Tata, stop your networking (/etc/init.d/<network-script-name>), connect to the ISP, this should give you a workable routing table.
err.. any sure-shot way to figure out the <network-script-name> if i dont know it? and how do we stop it?
how about "ls /etc/init.d/*net*" ? this should give you the network script name. Execute the file without any arguments and it will show all the options. You will have to do it as "root" user.
Suggest you get familiar with basic Linux sys admin, there are several excellent e-books.
Start here http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_for_beginners_index.html