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I installed the base gentoo system on a sparc64 and ran into a strange
problem. The DHCP setups up ok, but I can't get downloads with wget.
What's strange is ping works fine. I can ping www.google.com and get a
response. Event stranger is the install CD had no problems downloading.

All the configuration files are in order. The gateway is configured
correctly. In fact, route, and ifconfig return the same settings as
when running from the install CD.

I thought maybe there was something in the kernel I needed to
enable/disable...

Thanks,
humby

On 2006-02-01, codehead <codehead78@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed the base gentoo system on a sparc64 and ran into a strange
> problem. The DHCP setups up ok, but I can't get downloads with wget.
> What's strange is ping works fine. I can ping www.google.com and get a
> response. Event stranger is the install CD had no problems downloading.

do you have a firewall or a proxy server between you and the Internet?
Or have you added iptables to your default runlevel?

What's the response to:
telnet www.google.com 80

and:
route -n

?

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

Didn't do anything with iptables, checked /etc/init.d, saw no iptables
script. How does gentoo define runlevels? It's not like redhat with rc*
directories and soft links.

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.

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

thanks

On 2006-02-01, codehead <codehead78@gmail.com> wrote:
> Didn't do anything with iptables, checked /etc/init.d, saw no iptables
> script. How does gentoo define runlevels? It's not like redhat with rc*
> directories and soft links.

no, bit different. Look under /etc/runlevels and man rc-update


> I don't have telnet installed. Tried downlaoding netkit-telnet but
> emerge says no ebuilds. Tried netkit-telentd, and it said ..no packages
^^
you have a typo in there, was it there when you searched for it too?

darren@garbo ~ $ emerge netkit-telnetd -s
Searching... c
[ Results for search key : netkit-telnetd ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* net-misc/netkit-telnetd
Latest version available: 0.17-r6
Latest version installed: 0.17-r6
Size of downloaded files: 155 kB
Homepage: ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/
Description: Standard Linux telnet client and server
License: 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

what's the machine at 10.10.10.1? Is it an ADSL router?

You may also want to install tcpdump and watch the port or host as you
attempt to make a connection.


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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.

file is /usr/portage/distfiles/netkit-telnetd-0.17.tar.gz

# export PKGDIR=/usr/portage

# emerge --usepkgonly netkit-telnetd
... tries to download...

# emerge --usepkgonly =netkit-telnetd-0.17
... no ebuilds

# emerge netkit-telnetd -s
Latest version: 0.17-r6, not installed...

> what's the machine at 10.10.10.1? Is it an ADSL router?
yes it is.

All netkit-* files are under /usr/portage/distfiles and have a tar.gz
extension.

> Did you leave out TCP/IP support or something?

The Main TCP/IP is selected but not some of the experimental and new
options beneath.

On 2006-02-01, codehead <codehead78@gmail.com> wrote:
> file is /usr/portage/distfiles/netkit-telnetd-0.17.tar.gz
>
> # export PKGDIR=/usr/portage
>
> # emerge --usepkgonly netkit-telnetd
> .. tries to download...
>
> # emerge --usepkgonly =netkit-telnetd-0.17
> .. no ebuilds
>
> # emerge netkit-telnetd -s
> Latest version: 0.17-r6, not installed...

if the source tarball is already in /usr/portage/distfiles, then simply:

# emerge netkit-telnetd



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codehead wrote:
> file is /usr/portage/distfiles/netkit-telnetd-0.17.tar.gz
>
> # export PKGDIR=/usr/portage

This a default value, not needed.


> # emerge --usepkgonly netkit-telnetd
> .. tries to download...

You need to add the binary to /usr/portage/packages/All

If you want to build you need to get the sourcefile to /usr/portage/distfiles
and run

emerge netkit-telnetd



//Aho

# ping www.google.com
.... 0% packet loss

# telnet www.google.com 80
Trying 66.102.7.104...

# ls /etc/runlevels/default
domainname local net.eth0 netmount

TCP should be fine, as it works inside the local network.