Stuck behind transparent proxy...?

**kikonoke** · 01-09-2009

I am currently in IRAQ and i have a COMPAQ laptop i run Gentoo on. They offer internet in the trailers that we live in via "US COMS". I purchased it so i could use SKYPE and enjoy slow internet. However I think i am stuck behind some kind of transparent proxy. On other lappies (gross majority running windows vista ::shudder:

multiple network connections are detected and the browser automatically redirects to the US COMS login portal. (logging in is required to access the internet) My lappie can't connect to anything. eth0 is up and the ifconfig output looks correct. I attempted to manually enter the login portal URL, but to no avail. I couldn't ping anything but my own ip address. whenever trying to ping the login portal URL i get "Network unavailable". Any insight would be much appreciated.

**Lazydog** · 01-11-2009

OK, are you static or dhcp?

If static are you sure this ip is allowed to use the network you are on?

What does your route table look like? Can you ping the default GW?

What does your config file look like for eth0?

**kikonoke** · 01-11-2009

Well its dhcp, and this is what ifconfig had to say for eth0:

link encap:Ethernet HW addr 00:1b:38:ee:68:9e
inet addr:172.30.59.187 Bcast:172.30.59.187 Mask:255.255.255.255
inet6 addr: fe80::216:38ff:feee:689e/64 scope link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU 1500 Metric 1
RX packets 25 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0
collisions 0 txqueuelen:1000
interupt:16 Base adder 0x1000

also, what is GW and what do you mean by route table?

**Lazydog** · 01-12-2009

Looking at your output from 'ifconfig' you mask looks all wrong and this could be causing you your problem. Did you hard code this?

The GW should have been give to you by the DHCP server.

What I mean with route table is

Code:

route -n

This will give you the routing table for your system along with the GW.

**kikonoke** · 01-12-2009

Its not hard coded, I relied on Autoconfig for it. 'route -n' said:

Code:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination        Gateway     Genmask       Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
169.254.0.0        0.0.0.0     255.255.0.0      U  1000    0       0  eth0

**Lazydog** · 01-12-2009

Your problem is the DHCP, server is not setup correctly.
This you can see from your route. That route that is listed goes no where.

**kikonoke** · 01-17-2009

soo. i found that the gateway should be 172.30.1.1 but i dont know how to fix my problem...

Code:

route add default gw 172.30.1.1

returns an error....

and i used man for the proper way to use route but i am stuck any advice?

**kikonoke** · 01-17-2009

Ooop, i figured it out. i was just being obtuse. it seems all i needed to do was set up a static connection to the gateway. So just in case anyone may have a similar issue:

Code:

sudo route add -net 172.30.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 dev eth0

sudo route add default gw 172.30.1.1

worked out.

**Lazydog** · 01-18-2009

As stated before the DHCP server is not configured correctly. It should be giving you the default gateway.

Thread Tools

Display

Stuck behind transparent proxy...?

Posting Permissions