No internet on win98se

[DionTimmermann]

Hi!

I have just set up a router (gentoo linux pc). Everything works fine, at least from my other linux pc. My win98se laptop instead drives me crazy. These are the symptoms:
I have no problems with the samba share. I can read and write files and see the printer (I can not install it, but that probably is a configuration mistake). I can also ping the internet and traceroute works fine. But when I try to open an webpage in the browser or try to connect to my router with putty I get no response.
I installed a packet sniffer and it seems as if I even do not send any packets. (Traceroute and ping on the other hand send and recive some.)

What shuld I do?

Sorry for my poor english,
Dion

[bAdWaYz]

Do you have the windows98 computer as "auto obtain ip" and dns or do you use a static address? Is any sort of firewall running that might be blocking traffic on the computer? You say ping works is that for host names or only ip addresses?

[DionTimmermann]

I manualy set the ip address, as the dhcp server set an incorrect subnet-mask, which made browsing in the network impossible. (Accessing the shared foldes worked never the less.)
DNS name resolution works fine. I use a dns server on my router. ping and traceroute work with both ip and host name.

In case there are any other questions, here are my settings:
(I have to translate the Options, so there might be differences in the names.)
I have installed 4 Components und Network Configuration:
- "Client for Microsoft Networks"
- The ethernet card "D-Link DFE-660 Fast Ethernet PC-Card Adapter"
- "IPX/SPX compatible protocol" (NetBIOS is disabled)
- "TCP/IP" with the following options:

- IP-address is static: 192.168.0.178 Subnet-Mask: 255.255.255.0 (dhcp sets it to 255.255.0.0, which does not work...[I'll change that])
- WINS is deavtivated
- Gateway is set to 192.168.0.1 (the router, which I can successfully ping)
- DNS is activated (
Host: sirrus(the router)
Domain:myst(workgroup of the network)
DNS Server: 192.168.0.1 (aka sirrus))
- NetBIOS is activated and not changeable.
- I DISallowed "Binding to ATM", but it neither worked before.

My computername is: yeesha
Workgroup is: myst

[jayesch]

Can you trace any other host on the internet ? Just try doing

C:\tracert -d www.yahoo.com
from command prompt.. let me know how it goes..

If it completes the trace then try

C:\telnet www.yahoo.com 80

If you see a blank window with "Telnet www.yahoo.com" on Title bar. Then you are able to establish a connection on port 80 of Yahoo..and it also means that you should be able to browse..

If despite of this you are still not able to browse then it is some problem with your Internet Explorer Settings or router configuration which Ideally should act as a proxy too (to perform IP Masquerading)...

Jayesh

[DionTimmermann]

Tracerouting works fine:

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>tracert -d www.yahoo.com

Route-Verfolgung zu www.yahoo.com [216.109.118.69]
über maximal 30 Abschnitte:

  1     1 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    51 ms    45 ms    48 ms  217.0.116.125
  3    49 ms    46 ms    48 ms  217.0.72.150
  4   143 ms   143 ms   144 ms  62.154.14.134
  5   143 ms   145 ms   142 ms  62.159.124.242
  6   143 ms   143 ms   142 ms  216.115.96.167
  7   143 ms   146 ms   145 ms  216.109.120.151
  8   144 ms   145 ms   145 ms  216.109.118.69

Route-Verfolgung beendet.

When I try telnet i get an alert saying "No connection to www.yahoo.com" and the window title is "Telnet (none)". (I translated it, in english there might be a slightly different text.)

The problem with telnet is the same when I try to connect to my router with ssh.

=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2005.10.23 09:12:12 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
Event Log: Writing new session log (SSH packets mode) to file: putty.log
Event Log: Looking up host "sirrus"
Event Log: Connecting to 192.168.0.178 port 22
Event Log: Failed to connect to 192.168.0.178: Unknown network error

It works fine from my linux pc.

[DionTimmermann]

I just corrected an minor error.
I changed Host under DNS-Configuration to "yeesha" (the laptop itself) insted of "sirrus". The setting sirrus caused ping attempts to sirrus being andswerd by the laptop itself. (the network card LED not blinking and the packet sniffer saying nothing...)
Pinging the router works now correctly, but I still can't open an ssh connection. So, nothing changed...

[bAdWaYz]

What make and model of router are you using? Most home based routers are accessed using a web browser. I don't think trying to ssh into it will work unless that router is made to do that or has a built in ssh server of some sort. My guess on the not being able to open a web page is either a firewall or dns issue. Make sure you don't have a firewall blocking traffic on the 98 computer and you might try to change the dns address from the routers ip to the dns address given to you by your isp.

[DionTimmermann]

OK, I gave up. I formated the hard drive and reinstelled win98. Everything works fine now. I hate this....

Thanks for your help,
Dion