ERROR: You are not connected to the Internet.

[willmore]

I've noticed a strange thing on one of my Linux boxes. Since I moved a little over a month ago, one box doesn't want to talk to primenet. I keep getting the above error. He is connected (through a firewall) and I can resolve names and ping things.

Does anyone know just how mprime comes up with the conclusion that it's not connected to the internet? What do I need to check to make it happy?

[Prime95]

Dig into the undoc.txt file. I think it describes 3 or 4 different ways mprime can be configured to detect an internet connection.

[willmore]

Well, that highlighted the problem. Seems something in my old RH7.1 startup scripts wasn't setting up my default route correctly (enough) for mprime to like it. It worked and routed packets, but it wasn't marked as a default route. It was just a route that said "everything goes here", but was last in the route table, so it only got hit if there wasn't a better route--but there's a *special* flag that says the same thing in a different way and that's what cueues mprime. Odd.

So, just a thing for people to beware. Seems old startup scripts and new kernels (2.5.63) have a minor disagreement WRT setting default routes. Oh, well.

Thanks, George, well, for this and for all the rest of it, too. :)

Cheers!