codehead wrote:

> I don't think it is a firewall issue, the install CD can get out just
> fine.

Did you leave out TCP/IP support or something?
>
> I don't have telnet installed. Tried downlaoding netkit-telnet but
> emerge says no ebuilds. Tried netkit-telentd, and it said ..no packages
> avaiable. I downloaded with links2 (using the CD), rebooted, copied to
> /usr/portage distfiles and ran emerge --metadata... no dice.

Curious. Try telnet-bsd?
>
> route -n:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 10.10.10.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>
That looks fine to me.