Re: [coLinux-users] Internet stopped working

[Dave C. <dc...@do...>]

Robert Irvin wrote:
> Have you set up /etc/resolv.conf to specify your nameservers?
/etc/resolv.conf has:
nameserver 10.0.2.3

Which is presumably handled by the Colinux slirp implementation.....

Dave Coventry wrote:
> Well that's me flummoxed!
>
> I started up using the original rootfile and it worked!
>
> Sorry to have wasted everyone's time on this....
>
> Sam Moffatt wrote:
>> Yes, thats something to do on the Windows side. Its strange but it has
>> been a solution in the past for magically not working internet on
>> other devices. Remember everything still goes through windows so if it
>> has managed to corrupt itself (or just your tap interface) it might be
>> enough to destroy your colinux connectivity.
>>
>> On the colinux side, if both your routes look sane and your ifconfig
>> looks sane to me I would suggest that things should be working fine.
>> You could change connectivity method but it looks like its working
>> well.
>>
>> Debugging this stuff is always...fun :p
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> On 08/07/07, Dave Coventry <dc...@do...> wrote:
>>> Hi Sam, thanks for the response.
>>>
>>> Do you mean on the Windows side?
>>>
>>> I've just built a clean gentoo-root file and the interenet connection
>>> works fine, so it must be some change I've made to the colinux system.
>>>
>>> I might fiddle around with some of the files in /etc/conf.d/......
>>>
>>> Can you suggest some configuration files to look at?
>>>
>>> Sam Moffatt wrote:
>>> > This is rather silly but it has worked in the past. Delete all of 
>>> your
>>> > network devices, reboot and reinstall everything (namely the tap
>>> > devices, the rest should autodetect) and see if this fixes things.
>>> > I've seen it work once in the past with XP on this list and I've used
>>> > it a few times under earlier operating systems (especially 98). This
>>> > is only relevant if its been working and randomly seems to have
>>> > stopped working which I think is your case,
>>> >
>>> > Sam
>>> >
>>> > On 07/07/07, Dave Coventry <dc...@do...> wrote:
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm using the Genntoo build on Windows XP.
>>> >>
>>> >> I had everything running perfectly with eth0=slirp and eth1=tuntp.
>>> >>
>>> >> /etc/conf.d/net had:
>>> >> config_eth0=( "dchp" )
>>> >> config_eth1=( "192.168.37.20/24" )
>>> >>
>>> >> I could ssh to the colinux layer via eth1 and use portage 
>>> successfully
>>> >> on eth0.
>>> >>
>>> >> Now portage has stopped working and I cannot ping google or access
>>> >> www.yahoo.com with lynx. The Tuntap connection to the XP layer 
>>> remains
>>> >> intact.
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm not sure what I might have done to disrupt the eth0 service. 
>>> I have
>>> >> installed apache, but turning apache off does not help.
>>> >>
>>> >> Can anyone think of anything I can check?
>>> >>
>>> >> ifconfig tells me:
>>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> >>
>>> >> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:FF:E8:32:BD:00
>>> >>           inet addr:10.0.2.15  Bcast:10.0.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>> >>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>> >>           RX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>> >>           TX packets:189 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>> >>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>> >>           RX bytes:1050 (1.0 Kb)  TX bytes:14282 (13.9 Kb)
>>> >>           Interrupt:2
>>> >>
>>> >> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:FF:F9:56:80:00
>>> >>           inet addr:192.168.37.20  Bcast:192.168.37.255
>>> >> Mask:255.255.255.0
>>> >>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>> >>           RX packets:372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>> >>           TX packets:498 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>> >>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>> >>           RX bytes:29783 (29.0 Kb)  TX bytes:69384 (67.7 Kb)
>>> >>           Interrupt:2
>>> >>
>>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> >>
>>> >> (I had my old laptop stolen in a burglary and I'm trying to set 
>>> up the
>>> >> replacement)
>>> >>
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