Hi Steve, You wrote to the [suse-autoinstall] mailing list, which has a bit different focus: Automated installation of SuSE Linux with the tool autoyast. You might get further help on the other suse mailing lists .. (Probably "suse-linux-e") Anyway: I might have some helpfull suggestions, even if I don't see the solution to your problem, yet. I think I can ride out three non-errors. netstat -nr shows the routing *without name resolution* (if you don't have a proper dns working .. or a full /etc/hosts file, you don't get name resolution, and netstat -r will need a very long time ) netstat -nr and route -n should show the same, on this platform, btw. IPv6 shouldn't hurt - even if the most of us don't do IPv6, yet. Suse boxes have it as default since v 7.3 or earlier, IIRC. (Somehow it's possible to disable it - but it's usually not worth the effort.) ifstatus eth0 shows on my boxes the same than on yours in that line:
0 of 1 configured routes for interface eth0 up I don't know what that message really tells us - but my boxes are telling the same and *do* networking just fine. (It might have to do with a new feature: you can create special routing files for routes which are depending on the up or down status of each single network interface. Quite nice for special networking stuff - but not needed in your simple case.)
Your thought that inetd is *not* needed for a ping is of course correct.
datran6:/etc/sysconfig/network # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:12:43:38 inet addr:192.168.1.12 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:fe12:4338/10 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:920 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
You've received more bits than you sended, so your network card seems to get some stuff from the network ... (sometimes a hardware-near packet sniffer like tcpdump, snort (commandline-tools) or ethereal (X - gui) might show more about the sort of traffic you network card gets and sends - if you know how to use them / read the output ) Hope this helps for further debugging ... Hella -- -- -- -- -- -- hella.breitkopf@varetis.de unix + network administrator