From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nick Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 05:50:51 +0000 Subject: netstat -nr Message-Id: <407A3BEA.1030607@netscape.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Hi, First of all, I would like to thank you for your quick response. And I do appreciate your effort and suggestions. Actually, I am where I am now, because of guys like you that shared knowledge, hackers, crackers, programmers and sysadmins. What can I say, except... THANK You... Here is my routin table that I was avioding to get. I have no floppy. Actually, I need to deactivate it somehow because at bootup it looks for one and it gives me errors, cause there is no floppy on this laptop. So another question would be how do I 'tell' Linux not to look for a floppy anymore ? Routing: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irt Iface 68.28.229.7 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 169.254.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 68.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 68.28.224.192 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Can anyone explain this routing table to me ? Like: -How is the Genmask determined ? -Do you know of a good tutorial on the web that can somehow explain some basic routing concepts ? So I can actually be able to use: route, ifconfig, iptables by myself in the future and be able to actually do stuff myself ? Since I do not use eth0 (for now), would it be better if I just remove it from the configuration or the routing table ? I was trying to install linuxconf, but it says it needs 2 libraries... and those 2 libraries are both installed. Actually, linuxconf says it needs lower versions of those libraries... I downloaded one of them and when I tried to install the RPM it says it conflicts with what I have, the newer version. It would be a major thing if I could get linux to connect to the net. But it seems that every step is a strugle... I mean, I want to make use of perl, curl, libcurl, DBI/mysql, libwww abd tools like that, maybe even work at devlopping a website with PHP-mysql-apache, but first, I need to get connected to the net. I was asked, actually, given some ideas on how to transfer a file from linux to windows. I was trying to avoid writing down that routing table, because it was the only thing I could have done since: 1)-i have no floppy 2)- the cd re/writer is mounted read only (are there any drivers for DVD-ROM/CD-RWs out there ?) 3)- my linux (fedora) kernel cannot read/mount NTFS disks (windows xp). I tried to that in FSTAB and mounting it manually, but it says that my kernel does not support NTFS. And reconfiguring the kernel is something I would like to avoid for the time being.. Nick...