network connectivity

Question

i have both public and private cannot connect to public internet whereas intranet is functional i am using slackware

Answer 1

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Are you setting static IP addresses, or are you getting them from a DHCP server? Could you perhaps provide the output of the following commands?

/sbin/ifconfig

/sbin/route

cat /etc/resolv.conf

This can help determine your connectivity issues.

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answered 04 May '10, 17:41

feinom
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Answer 2

2	Are you aware of any firewalls in your network that might be blocking your outgoing requests to the internet? link answered 05 May '10, 01:03 v3gard 21●3 accept rate: 0%

Answer 3

2	Have you enabled packet forwarding between the public and private network interfaces? If not, you need to add … `net.ipv4.ip_forward=1` to `/etc/sysctl.conf`. link answered 06 May '10, 14:21 Convict 31●2 accept rate: 0%

Answer 4

0	Is there a proxy server in use on the network, you may need to set your browser to point at the proxy host to allow you out on the public internet! link answered 08 May '10, 04:41 1jnike 96●1 accept rate: 8%