by The setup: I have a Cox cable connection that comes into my house.
I connected the cable connection to the wan side of my linksys router
(befsr11). From the lan side of the router, I connected it to a
10/100 8 port switch (a netgear fs105). From that, I have two PCs
connected to it via DHCP. One of the PCs runs WinMe, the other runs
Linux Redhat 9 (my computer).
The problem: I can no longer connect to mail.yahoo.com or any other
website that requires a secure connection. For some reason, all
regular connections that don't don't use secure web pages, seem to be
unaffected. Also, if I go to the windowsMe computer, I have no
problems. This did not used to be the case a few weeks ago.
I did fiddle around with ifconfig to try to reestablish the
connection, to no avail. I'm wondering if I may have caused my own
problem. hehehe
The commands I evoked were this:
from the prompt, I typed "ifconfig promisc"
Here is a printout of what I get when I run ifconfig without commands:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:9F:05:60
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10081 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9846 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:7612983 (7.2 Mb) TX bytes:1602422 (1.5 Mb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1400
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:389504 (380.3 Kb) TX bytes:389504 (380.3 Kb)
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This is a printout of my netstat
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window
irtt Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
0 eth0
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can someone tell me what's wrong?
Thank you so much,
Sterling Lombard