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Check 'route' - does it show everything you need?<br />
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If you have a PPP connection, you need a default route:<br />
route add -net default &lt;peer address&gt;<br />

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Check 'route' - does it show everything you need?

If you have a PPP connection, you need a default route:
route add -net default <peer address>


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Do you have support compiled for your ethernet card? &nbsp;does it<br />
detect it at boot time?<br />
Do you have a gateway configured? &nbsp;route add default gw &lt;IP addy&gt;<br />
paste the results of &quot;netstat -nr&quot; after adding your gateway if<br />
you're still having problems, and let us take a look<br />
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Do you have support compiled for your ethernet card?  does it
detect it at boot time?
Do you have a gateway configured?  route add default gw <IP addy>
paste the results of "netstat -nr" after adding your gateway if
you're still having problems, and let us take a look



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Pinging yourself using loopback is net very helpful. Try to ping yourself with your IP-address. If it works, you have a routing problem, if it doesn't you have an ifconfig problem.<br />
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Pinging yourself using loopback is net very helpful. Try to ping yourself with your IP-address. If it works, you have a routing problem, if it doesn't you have an ifconfig problem.



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I have just set up Linux with what seems to be all the necessary items ie(route, hosts.conf, etc.) My problem though is that although I can ping myself using loopback, I cannot see anyone on the network. &nbsp; I get an error &nbsp;&quot;Unable to connect to remote host: No route &nbsp;to host. &nbsp;I would like to know how to cure this problem.
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I have just set up Linux with what seems to be all the necessary items ie(route, hosts.conf, etc.) My problem though is that although I can ping myself using loopback, I cannot see anyone on the network.   I get an error  "Unable to connect to remote host: No route  to host.  I would like to know how to cure this problem.

Linux Routing

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.