Getting Terminal Programs to use Shared Internet Connection.

[teh supar faggort1]

Hi everyone. I had a quick question. Right now I am running Wingate on my Win32 pc in one room with the ISDN connection in there. I have gotten Netscape to work now, by setting the proxy settings, but I can't get any terminal programs like lynx to work. It just says "Unable to connect to remote host." I looked around in linuxconf, but didnt see a place to set proxy settings... This is one of the things I love about IE5.5. It auto detects the proxy settings for everything, so idgits like me don't have to worry... Anyways. I would be much obliged if someone could help me out on this one. Thanks!!

(notso)l33tB0y...

[Lorithar]

*peers*

netscape works, but lynx doesn't....


What are your network settings on the linux box?

netstat -rn at the command line will yeild a good start
ifconfig -a at the command line will yeild the rest of what we need here.

What distro are you running ... you may have to modify startup files and we need to know which distro to point you at the correct files.

[teh supar faggort1]

Hi... I am running RH7... This is what I get when I run netstat -rn:

[bryan@localhost bryan]$ netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
172.16.110.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
[bryan@localhost bryan]$ ifconfig -a
bash: ifconfig: command not found

But then ifconfig doesn't seem to be a valid command in RH7... Don't know...

Also, the only thing I can get to work is Netscape. The RH updater won't work either because it doesn't think it can get to the server... Ack... I am pretty new at this I will admit, but could someone help me please?

Thanks,
L33tB0y

[bdg1983]

Thought your post looked familiar. I gave you a suggestion in your post in Networking.

Cross Posting :mad:

Welcome to LNO, but cross posting in kinda frowned upon as stated in the LinuxNewbie FAQ's. Just something to keep in mind. :)