Re: Networking Problems

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Carl Fredrik Hammar
<hammy.lite@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> However, when I try to ping www.google.com, I get the following:
>>
>> # ping www.google.com
>> PING www.l.google.com (74.125.79.99): 56 data bytes
>> --- www.l.google.com ping statistics --
>> 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>
> I'm no expert on networking, but I did notice that it manages to resolve
> the address.

Yes, true :-) I forgot to mention that in the letter...

> You've probably done so already, but I think pings are handled specially,
> so you might also want to try using a more ``normal'' networking program
> such as lynx or wget.

You are right. I read about those ``abnormal'' pings, but I forgot to
test a different program yesterday... It's so bad that I often fail to
do the elementaries when it's so necessary :-(

> Atleast I know that something that appears to be broken but have actually
> worked all along, is just the kind of thing I'd run into.  ;-)

Oh yeah :-) That's common of me, too :-) However, I must say that
trying to solve the ``problem'' which actually was not a problem made
me refuse to use the bridging + TUN/TAP stuff when I only needed
Internet access.

Thanks a lot for the indications :-)

Regards,
scolobb