I recently installed RedHat9 on my laptop as a guest OS. My host OS is Windows2000 and I am using VMWare to toggle between two OSs.

Any time I try to connect to internet from RedHat environment using Mozilla, internet acces does not work. At the office, after connecting my laptop to our company's network and configuring Mozilla's proxy setting to company standard's (allowed) automatic configuration script, the connectivity to internet does not work.

Here, the help that I like to request from you folks is:

1. Being new to linux, is there any way (or command) to check network connectivity is working properly?

2. Honestly, I am not even sure is that VMware causing this problem or is it linux that i have to configure?

3. Like in windows, you type 'ipconfig' to check ip address of the ethernet connection or 'ipconfig /renew' to renew the dynamic address. What such command is used in Lunix? or is there any related feature available?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated on VMWare and Linux.

Cheers...