netstat -nr

Hi,

First of all, I would like to thank you for your quick response. And I do appreciate your effort and suggestions. Actually, I am where I am now, because of guys like you that shared knowledge, hackers, crackers, programmers and sysadmins. What can I say, except... THANK You...

Here is my routin table that I was avioding to get. I have no floppy. Actually, I need to deactivate it somehow because at bootup it looks for one and it gives me errors, cause there is no floppy on this laptop. So another question would be how do I 'tell' Linux not to look for a floppy anymore ?

Routing:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irt Iface

68.28.229.7 0.0.0.0  255.255.255.255  UH    0   0      0   ppp0
169.254.0.0.0   0.0.0.0  255.255.0.0       U    0   0      0   eth0
68.0.0.0    0.0.0.0  255.0.0.0     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     68.28.224.192 0.0.0.0      UG   0   0       0   eth0

Can anyone explain this routing table to me ?
Like:
-How is the Genmask determined ?
-Do you know of a good tutorial on the web that can somehow explain some basic routing concepts ? So I can actually be able to use: route, ifconfig, iptables by myself in the future and be able to actually do stuff myself ?

Since I do not use eth0 (for now), would it be better if I just remove it from the configuration or the routing table ?

I was trying to install linuxconf, but it says it needs 2 libraries... and those 2 libraries are both installed. Actually, linuxconf says it needs lower versions of those libraries... I downloaded one of them and when I tried to install the RPM it says it conflicts with what I have, the newer version.

It would be a major thing if I could get linux to connect to the net. But it seems that every step is a strugle... I mean, I want to make use of perl, curl, libcurl, DBI/mysql, libwww abd tools like that, maybe even work at devlopping a website with PHP-mysql-apache, but first, I need to get connected to the net.

I was asked, actually, given some ideas on how to transfer a file from linux to windows. I was trying to avoid writing down that routing table, because it was the only thing I could have done since:
1)-i have no floppy
2)- the cd re/writer is mounted read only (are there any drivers for DVD-ROM/CD-RWs out there ?)
3)- my linux (fedora) kernel cannot read/mount NTFS disks (windows xp). I tried to that in FSTAB and mounting it manually, but it says that my kernel does not support NTFS. And reconfiguring the kernel is something I would like to avoid for the time being..

Nick...

You have an ethernet card. That card is grabbing the default route 0.0.0.0
Place the line
route del default
at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or whereever rc.local is)

Host or network.
Somewhere you told it to route 68.0.0.0 ( a /8 network) to the ethernet card. Do not know if that is what you want.

Yes, especially as you have it routing all kinds of stuff.

Get the routing fixed. As above. And put
defaultroute
into /etc/ppp/options.

sure. They are already there.
you need cdrecord installed.

NTFS support is still read only as far as I know. It might be a good idea to have one FAT partition that can be shared between win and linux.