Dear Stephen, You didn't say what kind of broadband you want to connect to. There would be a difference between adsl and cable, as well as pppoe and adsl with a fixed address.
I'm not an expert, but I just yesterday connect to adsl (using pppoe). If that describes your situation, try running "pppoeconf" - it's fairly intuitive and it worked well for me. As for using "ping", I understand that many web sites are blocking the ping command (or am I wrong about this?). I'm using Guarddog as a firewall, and I've also got ping blocked. regards, Robert On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 00:29:33 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > My Debian box can't connect Internet, Broadband connected. > > # ifconfig > showed connecting ISP > > I played around with following files without a solution; > > # cat /etc/network/ifstate > lo=lo > eth0=eth0 > > # cat /etc/network/interfaces > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration > file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > # The loopback interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > installationauto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > # cat /etc/network/spoof-protect > LOCAL_IPS="127.0.0.1/8" > LOCAL_IFACES="eth0 eth1 ppp0" > (Remark: having tried; > #LOCAL_IPS="127.0.0.1/8" > #LOCAL_IFACES="eth0 eth1 ppp0" > LOCAL_IFACES="eth0 ppp0" > > After each change made > # /etc/init.d/networking restart > Reconfiguring network interfaces: done) > > # cat /etc/network/interfaces.dpkg-new > # (no output, an empty file) > > # cat /etc/network/options > ip_forward=no > spoofprotect=yes > syncookies=no > (having tried; > ip_forward=yes > spoofprotect=no > syncookies=yes) > > # ping -c 3 www.yahoo.com > ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com > > # /etc/init.d/iptables stop > Aborting iptables load: unknown ruleset, "inactive". > > iptables has not been configured yet > > Kindly advise how to fix the problem. > > Thanks in advance. > > B.R. > Stephen Liu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]