network connection error

[doug mielke]

It sure sounds like you did nothing wrong here. First step when can only ping yourself is check media, but you had this working just prior to change of gateway. Is it possible there is a metric problem here?

If the real default has a high one, and some bogus one out there has a low one, you can get into a situation where all packets outside the local seg. go for the low metric, whether it can forward them or not.
But Your local pings should still work in a case like this, unless there is a bogus route to your local segment via a segment you can't get to.

If you remove the gateway / routes. can you ping other hosts on same segment?

[Arnaud_8]

LHradowy Don't forget :
To give points, it is a MORAL OBLIGATION

Thank you.

[Ratzie]

As I completely understand and support!
Right now I am in a holding pattern, stuck at one building and having the sever in another building. So when I get over there and sort out all the information that people have helped out on, then I will distribute the points.

[Ratzie]

Well, heres what happened!
Very good learning experience...

After trying to get the network up, and fiddled with the netconf file, and then my maching was doing an endly loop of powering on and off.

Back to the drawing board...
I reinstalled the OS thinking I buggered up the netconf file... YIKES

Still no go...
After trials and tribulations, I light went on...
I needed to contact the support specialist of the switch that I plugged into, and get him to activate the port!!!

Turns out I had everything right!

Thanks everyone for your help!