On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 12:42, Jay Taylor wrote: > I'm just trying to get the external ip address for the box. I tried > ftp'ing to a box back at home in California since it would log the > connection attempt, but it just timed out. I can't ftp to redhat or > anyone, it would seem. The ping not working cause of disabled icmp > makes sense though, im just not sure how to get the external address of > this thing now...
Try pinging something on campus, like 128.187.168.1 (with apologies to computer science). I think pings work on campus still. > > Thanks fellas! > > Jay > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Casey T. Deccio > Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:52 AM > To: BYU Unix Users Group > Subject: Re: [uug] On-Campus Linux Box NAT Issues > > It will browse the Internet, but what won't it do? This problem really > may be application (or port) specific, so it depends on what you're > trying to do. Any more details would be great. > > Casey > > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 00:30, Jay Taylor wrote: > > I have a computer running slackware 8.5 here in the dorms, and I can?t > > seem to get it talk to the outside world. It will let me browse the > > internet in KDE, but that?s it, as far as external communication > > goes. It worked fine in the dorms last year, same hardware. I even > > reinstalled slackware today in hopes that it?d alleviate the problem, > > but it?s still happening. I tried swapping between 3 NIC?s, and each > > of them has done it L this is funky. Any ideas? Or is there anymore > > information y?all need? > > > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
