[CLUE-Tech] Getting There With FC2

[JD. Brown]

"Jed,

One question I have is...why "upgrade" to FC2?  If you are looking for
the latest and greatest then FC3 is out and is probably a better
distro.  FC2 is about 5 months from being EOL if that matters to you.

If you want a supported distro that behaves more like RH8 then you
could also look at one of the RHEL clones like
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ or http://www.centos.org/

Greg"


Greg does have a point! FC unfortunately is only a "hobbyist O.S.", per Redhat and it has a
very,very short term shelf life that will not be supported by Fedora once dead. But if you love
constant change and the ever evolving release cycles. Then it's great.
If you do not want to deal with Redhat because of what they did, Then I recommend CentOS.I've used
it quite a lot and it's great. It uses yum to update it's packages.

Now, Let's get back on track here. 
Are you running a home server? I.E: DNS?
Is your internet service provider giving you a static or DHCP IP address? 

Are you behind a hardware or software firewall or neither? 

So when you go to the commmand line as SU and type " route -n ". What is showing?


Example given:

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     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         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

How about " ifconfig "?

Eample Given:

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:06:5B:B7:E5:A3
          inet addr:192.168.X.XXX  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::206:5bff:feb7:e5a3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
          TX packets:1325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1298698 (1.2 Mb)  TX bytes:282577 (275.9 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80

irda0     Link encap:IrLAP  HWaddr 61:35:65:3a
          UP RUNNING NOARP  MTU:2048  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7252 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:106708 (104.2 Kb)

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:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3660 (3.5 Kb)  TX bytes:3660 (3.5 Kb)


We will move forward with your Eth0 connection once I have a better understanding.


As far as your PPP software that you would like to use to connect your PC. Have you looked around
at:

www.sourceforge.net

www.freshmeat.net

www.pbone.net

www.freshrpms.net

There are plenty of programs to connect via PPP. It's a matter of research and preference, which
comes back to you.

Your chat issue. Let me scratch my head and do a little research myself. I forget how that plays
with PPP/Lan etc. Brain Jam! :)


I'll check back in a bit.




JD







--- "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:32:17 -0800 (PST)
> "JD. Brown" <brownstixzz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > What network card are you using?
> 
> It's some variety of SMC, with the 8192 chipset. No issues here, it just
> needs a route.
> 
> > What modem card are you using?
> 
> Card? :)
> 
> I have an external serial modem. It happens that it's connected to the
> 'puter via a Belkin USB serial port. All works fine under RH8, and I can
> watch das blinkenlights.
> 
> 
> jed
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