Topic: ISP problem: no webbrowsing

[Pieter]

Trying serveral 'free' isp's, I have a problem with webbrowsing through the e-smith box.

-dial-up works
-ifconfig shows ppp0 is up
-pinging ip numbers works
-pinging server names (e.g. www.e-smith.org) works
-ftp works

Browsing does not work. I tried both from an attached client workstation and using lynx from the console. Both fail.
Traceroute doesn't find a route either.

I'm running v.4.1. The setup *does* work with other isp's.

Anyone?

(for dutch readers: I tried 'HetNet', 'Zonnet', and 'NokNok'. Please let me know if you have better experiences using these or other free isp's)

Pieter

[Gerald Jansen]

Don't fully understand your problem. Are you saing you can not browse the web with a free isp? Does the free isp provide a gateway address and a primary and secondary DNS server address?

[Pieter]

dns server and gateway are provided through dhcp at login. From ipconfig (win2k):

PPP adapter HetNet:

        Verbindingsspecifiek DNS-achtervoegsel:
        description. . . . . . . . . . . . .: WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
        physical adress . . . . . . . . . . . .  : 00-53-45-00-00-00
        DHCP-ingeschakeld . . . . . . . . . . : No
        IP-adres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: 213.75.91.166
        Subnetmask . . . . . . . . . . . . . .: 255.255.255.255
        default gateway. . . . . . . . . . .: 213.75.91.166
        DNS-servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 195.121.1.34
                                                195.121.1.66
        NetBIOS over TCPIP. . . . . . . . : Off

ifconfig on e-smith returns the following values for ppp0:

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:213.75.88.82  P-t-P:193.172.249.54  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:21 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
          TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10


As ftp, ping and dns namelookup wors, my guess is that e-smith does get the proper dns server and defaultgateway settings.

But no webbrowsing......

[Niels van Dijk]

Hello Pieter,

are you trying to browse from the e-smith server itself or from a machine behand the e-smith?

if you logon to the e-smith server using telnet or ssh you can start "lynx" at the command prompt, this is a text based webbrowser. Chech if this works. If it does, the problem lies with your windows browser (try installing your browser again, or install another one and test again.)

I have been using both Zonnet and Wish (noknok) with no problems at all.

good luck,

Niels