Things to Look at When You Can't Connect

Your computer's connection to an IP network is primarily defined by two things: the IP address and the netmask. If either one of these values is anything other than 100% perfect, your IP connection will not work.

First, determine which LAN (Local Area Network) interface you are attempting to connect through using the netstat command. As the name suggests, the netstat utility is used to determine the status of your network connections. Netstat implementations are different across the various Unix systems, but I am not aware (he said carefully) of any variation which does not support the -r option, which yields routing information. Type in the following command:

netstat -r

That should return output similar ...

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