it would be helpful if you told us what version of backtrack you are using.
Eth0 connects to router but does not connect to Internet
Hello,
I have been trying to get any sort of networking to run for the past 3 weeks trying every tutorial and how to on the web and these forums to no success. I am trying to get the ethernet to work on my netbook. I have set up a connection to the router, but that is as far as i get. I can connect to 192.168.1.1 and change the configurations on my router, but when I try google or anything else, i am not connected. Suprisingly I was looking at my ifconfig and i noticed that my eth0 has both ipv4 and ipv6,
Ifconfig eth0
I am not really sure what to try next.Code:eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:8b:d9:e1:b6 inet addr:192.168.1.109 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::223:8bff:fed9:e1b6/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:964 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:766 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:205766 (205.7 KB) TX bytes:62703 (62.7 KB) Interrupt:26 Base address:0x8000
Any help is appreciated,
Thanks
it would be helpful if you told us what version of backtrack you are using.
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Id check that Backtrack has a default gateway defined (the router should be the gateway - use the "route" command to check) and that it has a DNS server defined (again as the router - "cat /etc/resolv.conf").
If you are getting the address for the eth0 on BackTrack from DHCP these should have been automatically setup for you, if you set it manually you will need to set the gateway and DNS server yourself.
If those are OK then the issue could be a number of other things, including level 2 or level 3 filtering on the router and NAT on the router.
It sounds like you have a generic TCP/IP troubleshooting issue though, so if the router and DNS server ideas dont bear fruit Id start by learning more about TCP/IP and how it works.
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Thank you so much, you were right, I just needed to put the nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx into the resolv.conf file. Thanks for the help.
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