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                              Oh, one more thing …
                                        
The Howard Johnson [1] we're staying at can't configure their wireless
network.

> [spc]darkstar:~>netstat -rn
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
> 192.168.8.1     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0 eth0
> 192.168.255.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0 lo
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.8.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0
> [spc]darkstar:~>
> 

Yes, I was assigned an IP (Internet Protocol) of 192.168.255.101 (with a
netmask of 255.255.255.0) yet my gateway was defined as 192.168.8.1.

No XXXXXXX wonder I couldn't connect out. I just reassigned myself the IP of
192.168.8.240 (netmask of 255.255.255.0) and it worked just fine.

Sheesh!

[1] http://www.hojo.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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