Sorry, I had a RTFM moment. The lan configuration here is a little strange and it turns out that, to connect outside I have to go through a proxy. That's why I could ping everything locally but not outside. Having correctly configured my browser with the appropriate proxy I can browse outside, ftp is through a different proxy (and I can do that) and mail runs through a dedicated mail server. Which is how I had configured windows several months ago, but it had slipped my mind. Thanks. -Chris On Tuesday 27 August 2002 14:22, you wrote:

The computers you are trying to ping are located on the internet? If so, what about your firewall? 192.168.27.1 acts as a firewall for your lan?

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Chris Kellett wrote:

Greetings,

I'm in the final stages of setting up my laptop on a local network via a PCMCIA card and have succesfully configured the card and can reach everything on the local network. I can ping my main server, DNS, and gateway, and can retrieve names and IP addresses from the DNS (i.e., if I try to ping a computer at UCSB, my former school, the DNS returns the IP address and starts the ping but nothing happens. Try to telnet to the computer, nothing happens. Tried with various other computers at different locations to no avail.) If I run /sbin/route -n or /sbin/netstat -r I return two lines, one with my local addresses (192.168.27.0) and a netmask of 255.255.255.0, and the other line beginning with default and showing my gateway address (192.168.27.1). I originally entered all this information in under Yast2, but since I'm using PCMCIA, I'm wondering if it didn't make it's way into the correct files.

TIA, Chris

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