DSL Troubles Solved -- but not resolved...

[Brett I. Holcomb]

ifconfig is your friend for working with network.

ifconfig shows stats on RUNNING interfades.  ifconfig -a shows the status 
of all network connections (whether they are running, etc.).  ifconfig 
iface shows the stats on that interface.  Use -a first because ifconfig 
only shows running interfaces.  I ran into that when my eth0 did not start. 
 ifconfig made me think it wasn't there but ifconfig -a showed it was 
stopped.


> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, Llama, but I don't think it was MTU.  I tried
> reducing that a couple times to no effect.
> 
> However, while mucking about in Yast2 I decided to turn on the firewall2
> software and it told me in the process that eth0 was *not* my output
> interface.  So I changed it to be the output interface and bingo, I'm
> connected.
> 
> Now, so this lesson won't be wasted on the stupid (me), can someone tell
> me what the heck I did and how to do it from a command prompt?
> 
> 
> In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,
> 
> Tom  :-})
> 
> Thomas A. Condon
> Barbershop Bass Singer
> Registered Linux User #154358
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