Hello Friends, Its again me the great old problem child... Now landing here with old problem...in a different way...
Im not able to connect Red Hat Linux 9 to internet..Im using Sify broadband ...I have already asked abt this issue in a previous mail..Where in i din't know a bit abt Linux..So friends in here helped me out abt saying how to do it using "neat" command.. I used this command and i have specified my static IP,Gateway,my prefd DNS and alternate DNS also....The state of my connection shows active :( but im not able to even ping the local gateway...also since im not able to ping the local gateway im not also able to use the sify BB client to connect to internet... I tried it whole of last nite didnt work at all :( don't know where im going wrong...
please do guide me ...Im not sure...I think i mite get some yellings coz im posting the same issue again...But its ok..I can learn things :)
Thanks in advance..
Regds, Gokul
Im not able to connect Red Hat Linux 9 to internet..Im using Sify broadband
i am also using sify broadband...and u know what? it sucks big time.. so if you hav already been successful in connecting..then i wouldn't be surprised coz it takes long time for bbclient to connect.
I used this command and i have specified my static IP,Gateway,my prefd DNS and alternate DNS also....The state of my connection shows active :(
the whole procedure if you hav all the right addresses is this.. *) run sifyd command from whatever folder it is in *) run sifyconnect -l that should do it. in my case it take about 5 mins to eventually give a mesage "connection timeout reached" but if i repeat the sequence a 2nd time, it logins in a fraction of a second with asome lines saying
Login Success Welcome <username>,
Account Balance : xxx.xx Product Code : xxxx Expiry Date : xxxx-xx-xx xx:xx:xx Last Login : xxxx-xx-xx xx:xx:xx
Tue Aug 16 22:46:51 2005
and if you are not getting this message you are probably not connected.
but im not able to even ping the local gateway...also since im not able to ping the local gateway im not also able to use the sify BB client to connect to internet...
if you are getting 'no route to host' you are abviously not able to connect. either your addresses are incorrect or it is simply the 'suckofying' nature of sify that takes on my nerves too every 2nd day.
after you are connected, pinging should work. you getting the above 'login success' messages?
hope this solves it. double check the addresses anyway in /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (those are the paths i hav in RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation, but must be similar...if not same...in rh9)
hope this helps navin.
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On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 23:57, navin jathan wrote:
after you are connected, pinging should work. you getting the above 'login success' messages?
I am able to surf, but not ping their default gateway. Neither through Linux, nor Windows. This isn't much of a problem, but it makes troubleshooting difficult. I used to think they've blocked ICMP, but it seems other Sify users are able to ping fine.
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On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:49, Nadeem M. Khan wrote:
I am able to surf, but not ping their default gateway. Neither through Linux, nor Windows. This isn't much of a problem, but it makes troubleshooting difficult. I used to think they've blocked ICMP, but it seems other Sify users are able to ping fine.
Depends on your particular CTO. Some are stupid and don't want RFC 1122 complaince and thus block ICMP. ICMP isn't bad. It's very important for network debugging. And what use is blocking ICMP on the gateway? A gateway can't be hidden. For that matter any computer connected to a network cannot be blocked. It's presence can be very well detected using SYN / ACK or such attacks. Look up nmap ;)
Me thinks the Sify CTO wants to hide downtime. Since you can't regularly ping the gateway, you can't easily detect whether its up or not at any given point of time. So when you can't connect and call up your CTO and ask why you can't login, he will just say there is some config problem on your side :P
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 18:27, navin jathan wrote: *snip*
/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (those are the paths i hav in RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Workstation, but must be similar...if not same...in rh9)
Why don't you use Sify's mac os client? It's in java. It will work in linux too. it's much better than the sucky linux client...
--- Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
Why don't you use Sify's mac os client? It's in java. It will work in linux too. it's much better than the sucky linux client...
thanks dinesh... the macOS client is good. but one problem. 'my account' link does not work. seems it uses netscape by default ( it says in terminal 'Caught: java.io.IOException: netscape: not found') . i anyway could not do that with the linux client. but i did not mind it till they dint have the new 150Mb/day download limit. now i need it to work. any solutions to this? how do i change the default client to firefox?
regards, navin.
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On Thursday 18 August 2005 08:17, navin jathan wrote:
thanks dinesh... the macOS client is good. but one problem. 'my account' link does not work. seems it uses netscape by default ( it says in terminal 'Caught: java.io.IOException: netscape: not found') . i anyway could not do that with the linux client. but i did not mind it till they dint have the new 150Mb/day download limit. now i need it to work. any solutions to this? how do i change the default client to firefox?
Sorry bud, I am not an expert in sify's clients. Infact I havent used either of them. Anyway, the quickest solution I could think of would be to boot into windows. Click the "My Account" link. Save it to a text file. Boot in Linux. Open up the link and bookmark it!
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