On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> wrote: >> Did you mean ping nytimes.com ? > tcpdump -A port 50 output is tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, > use -v or -w for all protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB > (Ethernet), capturing size 65535 bytes, and a blinking cursor which I > left for 20 min and re-started, tried with -v got listening on eth0, > type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes. re-started and meant > to use -w but forgot and just typed tcpdump. That gave tons of output > which I can't fathom and let it go for 30 minutes. Re-started one more > time and pinged nytimes.com That returned screenful of data packets > all ok. Then shutdown til tomorrow. I think he meant port 53 instead of 50 to catch the DNS exchange - which now sounds like it is working anyway. When you start, does gnome eventually work normally now?. I'd do a 'yum update' on general principles if you at least have the network running. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com