On Saturday 23 June 2001 00:35, you wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:56:52PM +0200, Brendon wrote: > > Gateway: external ip 195.38.200.201 internal ip 192.162.0.1 > > Laptop: internal ip 192.162.0.2 > > desktop:...... > > > > the gateway is able to access the net and the laptop. > > the laptop is able to ping the gateway on both it's external and internal > > ip but cannot access (ping) external sites by either their ip or name. > > The laptop has no default route set, is my bet. If that is the problem, > then you can fix it on the laptop by doing: > > /sbin/route add default gw 192.162.0.1
'fraid it had no affect. the syslogs on both machines show nothing out of the ordinary either....