Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Clifford Okoro <Clifford.Okoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm currently trying to connect a linux machine to the net via a proxy
server running on a wiin98 machine. Although i can use the different
browsers/FTP clients to do so, I'm trying to get SETI to run on it which
requires access to the net via the command-line. At the present time, i can
ping the Proxy server but i cannot ping any NET IP address.
The route command gives me the ff output:
Destination  Gateway    Genmask              Flags   Metric   Ref    Use
Iface
<network>    *                  255.255.255.0       U         0           0
0        eth0

where <network > is my network.

Is there anything i should be seeing here?

The proxy uses a 'cable modem' connection but since i'm using a proxy, that
should be transparent to the linux box. I can surf the web from the linux
box but that requires me to tell the 'browser' what the proxy is. I have set
the 'Proxy' variables in the rc.config file. I have no /etc/route.conf at
the moment and i'm not sure i should be creating a 'route.conf' as opposed
to modifying a file that *should* already exist. I'm using Suse 7.1

Clifford