I am having problem configuring suse 8.2, the network in my office supports both dhcp and static ip. I originally enabled dhcp on the suse, and it didn't work, I typed" ifconfig eth0" and no ip address was specfied. I later reconfigured with the following parameters: ip: 192.168.69.96 subnet: 255.255.255.0 hostname:localhost domain: virgin name server1: 217.10.162.8 name server 2: 217.10.160.8 Routing---- default gateway: 192.168.69.251. I did restart the system and later on the command, I typed: ping 192.168.69.96... it was replying ping 192.168.69.251.... network unreachable ping 217.10.162.8....... network unreachable I do dual boot the suse 8.2 with winxp and win xp works fine. The windows xp config is as follows: ip: 192.168.69.94 subnet: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.69.251 dns: 217.10.162.8 dns:217.10.160.8 What is the implication of: ipv6? Kindly advice on what to do?

What is the output of the following two commands? $ /sbin/route $ /sbin/ifconfig

I just did, I typed the command: $/sbin/route, it said command not found. I tried: cd /sbin /sbin # route, which gave the following: destination: 192.168.69.96 gateway: x gemnask: 255.255.255.0 flags: u metric: 0 Ref: 0 use: 0 iface: eth 0 destination: default gateway: 192.168.69.251 gemnask: 0.0.0.0 flags: UG metric: 0 Ref: 0 use: 0 iface: eth 0 Also, /sbin # route, which gave the following: link encapulation, inet addr: 192.168.69.96, bcast: 192.168.69.255 mesh:255.255.255.0 ......

3dave, Thanks for your help, it's now working properly. I did changed the network card and evething started working well. Please kindly explain in details how to upgrade from suse 8.2 to suse 9.0? Thanks

Oops, the reason the command was not found is that you typed the $ at the beginning. I was using that to show a prompt. For future reference a $ usually indicates a regular user prompt where as a # means a root prompt. IPv6 is not in place yet. It shouldn't make too much difference just allows for far more IP numbers than IPv4. You'll end up having a different IP for your toaster, each light switch in your house, every star in the sky etc.... It looks like your routing table is OK, I take it that there was also an entry for loopback? Are you using yast (or is it yast2 these days?) to configure your network settings? Do you get any responses from: $ ping -b 192.168.69.255

3dave, I did changed the network card and then start the system, it's working perfectly now. How do I upgrade from suse 8.2 to suse 9.0?

Heh heh....looks like you posted as I was writing! Glad you got it going. I haven't used SuSE for a while but I think that you can perform an upgrade with the FTP install. Failing that and you have the CDs/DVD, you should be able to choose to upgrade at the beginning of the installation. Maybe something like apt-get would do the job too. I know that I can upgrade my slackware with swaret (which currently keeps it up to date every night).