Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1761 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 16:36 -0700, Wayne Hammond wrote:
>   On 8/18/2010 4:24 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2010/08/18 15:54 (GMT-0700) Wayne Hammond composed:
> >
> > >    Opensuse 11.3 Samba Server.
> > > Network Device setup correctly
> > > firewall is off.
> > > NIC is eth0 set to external
> > > LAN working fine and Samba Shares.
> > > But, the server can't ping out, can't update,
> > > or open browser.
> > > Don't know what else to check...
> > Gateway, /resolv.conf&/or DNS issues?
> I thought about that, there is a primary and secondary
> DNS Server listed for the device. I'll check out the /resolv.conf
> later tonight. I believe when I was "testing", I couldn't even ping
> out with an IP address.


check the hw towards internet

ethtool <ethx>

perhaps a cross-cable when it should be straight (or vice versa)
Not all switches/modems do auto-sensing
Wrong speed / half duplex
(wrong) vlan?

No or wrong routing ?

How about a tcpdump on your external interface?

Pinging to the default gateway provided by your provider is the first
step. Second one is being able to reach a dns-server.

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