Can't connect to yahoo with Redhat 9

The setup: I have a Cox cable connection that comes into my house.
I connected the cable connection to the wan side of my linksys router
(befsr11). From the lan side of the router, I connected it to a
10/100 8 port switch (a netgear fs105). From that, I have two PCs
connected to it via DHCP. One of the PCs runs WinMe, the other runs
Linux Redhat 9 (my computer).

The problem: I can no longer connect to mail.yahoo.com or any other
website that requires a secure connection. For some reason, all
regular connections that don't don't use secure web pages, seem to be
unaffected. Also, if I go to the windowsMe computer, I have no
problems. This did not used to be the case a few weeks ago.

I did fiddle around with ifconfig to try to reestablish the
connection, to no avail. I'm wondering if I may have caused my own
problem. hehehe

The commands I evoked were this:

from the prompt, I typed "ifconfig promisc"

Here is a printout of what I get when I run ifconfig without commands:

[root@localhost Redhat9]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:9F:05:60
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10081 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9846 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:7612983 (7.2 Mb) TX bytes:1602422 (1.5 Mb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1251 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:389504 (380.3 Kb) TX bytes:389504 (380.3 Kb)

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This is a printout of my netstat

[root@localhost Redhat9]# netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window
irtt Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
0 eth0
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
0 eth0

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can someone tell me what's wrong?


Thank you so much,
Sterling Lombard

On 6 Sep 2003 14:20:19 -0700, Sterling Lombard
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> ------------------------------------------
> This is a printout of my netstat
>
> [root@localhost Redhat9]# netstat -r
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window
> irtt Iface
> 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> 0 eth0
> default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> 0 eth0
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> can someone tell me what's wrong?
>
>
If you can get to sites other than secure web sites, there is nothing
wrong with your ifconfig and route settings. Check your firewall and
your browser preferences. Some secure sites may require cookies and
Javascript.


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