newbie trouble - Internet connection

[Remko Lodder]

Hey Jobse,


jobse wrote:

> Hello!
> Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD
> 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora.
> Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt
> with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to
> any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide
> support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw.
> 
> thanks
> jobse

Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows.
Did you turnon any dns servers?
if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites.

How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser 
pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP.

Do you use a Firewall?

etc

Hth,

> 


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Kind regards,

Remko Lodder                   |remko at elvandar.org
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