I have an XP machine with ICS configured. I also set up another machine (P-II 233, 128MB RAM) running Red Hat 7.1. Both are networked together via a 10MB hub. Everything seems to work ok...Linux boots up, gets an IP via DHCP from the XP machine, and I am able to ping web sites and the XP machine. However, when I go into Netscape on the Linux box, I am unable to access the Internet, with the exception of For example, if I try to go to yahoo.com, it just sits there,waiting for a reply, but I never see the page. This happens on svereal other sites as well. I notcied the ping times seem slow as well. Any ideas as to what is happening? Is it a hardware issue (problem with hub, cables, etc.)?
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Seems kind of backwards to me.
Anyway. Can you ping external sites: do you
have proxying software installed?
Anything about the configuration of your xp machine
would help. I know that ICS was badly broken in
win98 for early versions with a routing problem for
classless and mismatching ptp remote netmasks.
Possible solution:
Use the linux machine as your gateway router.
it would be simpler in the long run and there are more resources for you to use in terms of security and
networking diagnostics in general.
Anyway. Can you ping external sites: do you
have proxying software installed?
Anything about the configuration of your xp machine
would help. I know that ICS was badly broken in
win98 for early versions with a routing problem for
classless and mismatching ptp remote netmasks.
Possible solution:
Use the linux machine as your gateway router.
it would be simpler in the long run and there are more resources for you to use in terms of security and
networking diagnostics in general.
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The XP machine is nothing special. I simply turned on ICS, disbaled the XP firewall (which gets enabled by default when ICS is enabled) and that's it. From the Linux box I can ping external sites, and seems to be the one web site I can access. Otherwise evrything else just stalls when trying to access a site thru Netscape.
I know it's kind of backwards....I just didn't feel like messing around with my XP machine. I assume though that theoretically my setup should work, right?
I know it's kind of backwards....I just didn't feel like messing around with my XP machine. I assume though that theoretically my setup should work, right?
Hi
Well, according to M$ ( and you should be able to get it to work from any TCP/IP client. The requirement is just to have the interface setup as a DHCP client and to let it configure a dynamic IP address & dns info.
The fact that you can evidently get to would seem to rule out almost everything on the linux side. I could only guess maybe a dns problem . Do you get the same problem if you do instead of ?
Regards
Well, according to M$ ( and you should be able to get it to work from any TCP/IP client. The requirement is just to have the interface setup as a DHCP client and to let it configure a dynamic IP address & dns info.
The fact that you can evidently get to would seem to rule out almost everything on the linux side. I could only guess maybe a dns problem . Do you get the same problem if you do instead of ?
Regards
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here's something interesting (at least to a linux newbie like myself 
if I long in as root, it works fine. I am able to access all sites. If I log in as a regular user, I see the problem mentioned above. Does each user need some sort of privilege or something?
Thanks for everyone's help
if I long in as root, it works fine. I am able to access all sites. If I log in as a regular user, I see the problem mentioned above. Does each user need some sort of privilege or something?Thanks for everyone's help
Hi,
Hmmmm.. well that would definetely be a problem at the linux end - maybe something strange with netscape. Is this a version that came with redhat or a 6.1 you installed yourself. If so, how did you install it ?
Also, from the non-root user is it the same with mozilla or konqueror (assuming you have kde for last one) ? If you don't have another browser to test against try downloading opera for linux --> . Just download in to a directory somewhere, open a xterm console window, 'su' to the root account, then install with :
rpm -Uvh opera*.rpm
Apart from installing a very good browser, the idea is to try to see if your problem only affects netscape...
Regards
Hmmmm.. well that would definetely be a problem at the linux end - maybe something strange with netscape. Is this a version that came with redhat or a 6.1 you installed yourself. If so, how did you install it ?
Also, from the non-root user is it the same with mozilla or konqueror (assuming you have kde for last one) ? If you don't have another browser to test against try downloading opera for linux --> . Just download in to a directory somewhere, open a xterm console window, 'su' to the root account, then install with :
rpm -Uvh opera*.rpm
Apart from installing a very good browser, the idea is to try to see if your problem only affects netscape...
Regards
I had a problem like this with netscape.
It would hang as any user but root if it could not resolve the "home" site. I believe my permissions were screwed but I got so disgusted i installed mozilla and never looked back. No problems since. One of the bugs from netscape that
didn't get continued into Moz evidently. This is an old
version of netscape I am thinking of though...
You also might want to check permissions on your config
files responsible for resolving hostnames..
nsswitch and resolv.conf and make sure they are readable
by your users.
It would hang as any user but root if it could not resolve the "home" site. I believe my permissions were screwed but I got so disgusted i installed mozilla and never looked back. No problems since. One of the bugs from netscape that
didn't get continued into Moz evidently. This is an old
version of netscape I am thinking of though...
You also might want to check permissions on your config
files responsible for resolving hostnames..
nsswitch and resolv.conf and make sure they are readable
by your users.
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