Internet woes

[Robert N. Eaton]

Kenneth wrote:
> --- "Robert N. Eaton" <Motheaton28 at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> In Fedora 7 Thunderbird doesn't connect at all: it times out. Firefox 
>> connects to a very few sites and doesn't seem to finish the connection, 
>> no matter how long it tries. Seems like a software problem, but _which_ 
>> software? SELinux? Firewall?
> 
> When firefox doesn't connect, what does the status bar say it's doing? 
> looking up host, waiting for reply?
> 
> What's the output of "ifconfig -a" ?
> 
[bob at localhost sbin]$ ./ifconmfig -a
eth0    Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:34:C3:19
    inet addr:192:168:0:3 Bcast:192:168:0:255 Mask:255:255:255:0            inet6 
addr fe80::255:5dff:fe34:c319/64 Scope:Link
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:2195 (2.1 KB) TX bytes:10602 (10.3 KiB)
    Interrupt:20 Base address:0x4000

eth1    Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8D:E5:8D:12
    BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
    Interrupt:16 Base address:0x8000

lo  Link encap:Local loopback
    inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
    inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
    UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
    RX packets:10274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:10274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:89837264 (85.6 Mib) TX bytes:89837264 (85.6 MiB)

[bob at localhost sbin]$

If there are any errors, it's my typing.  This is worse than sneakernet; 
I couldn't figure a protocol to write the ./ifconfig -a output to a 
floppy and then cut and paste in WinXP Thunderbird. I had to print it 
out and then reboot into WinXP, open  Thunderbird, type it in by hand, 
and I'm a lousy typist.

Bob