Hi Alex, I know that my cable company has a system that the cable modem records the MAC for the connection and will not let you switch to a different NIC without calling them. In my case, there was no issue, I just told them that I got a new PC, with a new NIC - 30 seconds later I was up. Of course that was after two days of checking and re-checking my configurations. :-(
Cheers edt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex McLintock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:30 PM Subject: [Leaf-user] blackholing at the ISP? how to diagnose? > Hi Folks, > > I am after advice because my first DachStein (floppy) installation is stuck. > I am not getting any response from my ISP except for the initial DHCP.... > > I had some problems getting the D-Link 528's to be recognised but that was because > I thought they were tulip based (like other later D-Links). They required > pci_scan, ne2k_pci, and 8390 to all be enabled/uncommented. > > My Internet provider is NTL:Home which is a UK based cable company. I know that > that is working to some extent because I can get it working with a single windows98 > box. I can configure it with DHCP and bobs your uncle. > > I then got DachStein DENYing absolutely everything that tried to leave the > box. Happily a document on the sourceforge site gave me a clue. It said there > was a single line in the Eiger network.conf file which denied any access > when the external IP address was a "local" one such as 192.168.X.X or 10.X.X.X > etc. "Hooray" says I. I have been getting addresses in the 10. range from > my ISP. So I edit the file (1, 2 in lrfg) and find not one, but three lines > which mention DENY and 10. ip address ranges. I comment them all out. > > So now I have a firewall which doesn't DENY packets going to the outside world > but it doesn't seem to do anything with them. > > > If I log in to the box and try pinging the outside world (eg > ping www.yahoo.com > or > ping 22.22.22.22 > ) > I get no response, 100% packet loss. > > Any idea on what I should do now? I can't see any kind of traceroute function > on the standard DachStein installation. Is that what I should look for? > > > > > PS I don't know what my ISP's DNS server is. Does that matter or will DHCP > pick that up for me? > > Alex McLintock > > ===== > Alex McLintock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Consultancy in London > OpenWeb Analysts Ltd, http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ > --- > SF and Computing Book News and Reviews: http://news.diversebooks.com/ > Get Your XML T-Shirt <t-shirt/> at http://www.inversity.co.uk/ > COMPETITION : http://news.diversebooks.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/08/1947255 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
