Cannot ping anything outside local network.

[Chrisco]

I am new to Linux and I just setup the bare Fedora Core 3 no GUI and I cannot ping anything outside of my local network. I can however ping any computer on my local network. I ran netconfig and setup with the following configuration:
IP address : 192.168.1.115
Netmask : 255.255.255.0
Default gateway (IP) : 192.168.1.1
Primary nameserver : 205.152.132.235

I am also getting the following when looking at my logwatch with the (nano /var/spool/mail/root) command :
WARNING: Kernal Errors Present
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6...

[ats-tech]

I guess my first question would be... does your router/firewall allowing pings to go through it? Can ou ping the default gateway? My next test would be trying to do a traceroute to the external ip address that you are pinging to see where you are being stopped.

Regardiing the vesafb0 error... this should have something to do with your display....

[Chrisco]

Thank you, but nevermind, got it, had to restart after doing netconfig.

[ats-tech]

Glad you got it working.

Probably could have gotten away with just restarting the network service with

service network restart.

[Chrisco]

Ok cool, that probably would have been a lot easier. Now I have to come up with something else to figure out. Any ideas of what to try out next?

[ats-tech]

You could set yourself up a little web server. play around with iptables (firewall)... you're just tipping the iceberg... it's nothing but fun from here. =)

[Chrisco]

Thanks, Doing YUM update right now. Will try some of that when this thing finally gets done updating.

[niloppa]

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