Hi:
I am trying to connect my box running linux-mandrake 7.2 with @Home. I am able
to configure the eth0 interface and it does show up when I do a ifconfig and a
netstat -r. I used netconf to assign the host name, DNS server names etc. While
I am able to ping the machine with the IP address i give to the eth0 interface,
I cannot reach anything outside the box.
This is a short summary of what I did:
# insmod rtl8139
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
# route add default eth0
after that i went into netconf and gave it the host name, DNS server address
etc. I check all the related .conf files.
If i ping 192.168.1.10 it goes through. But if try to ping anything else it
just fails.
I tried using dhclient to see if it is able to reach @Home's DHCP server but to
no avail.
Another thing that I noticed is that every time I reboot, the eth0 interface
fails to come up and I have to manually bring up that interface.
This is my setup, I have a a nic connected to a hub, connected to a cable
modem. I have two other windows boxes connected to the hub, which I turned off
as I first wanted to get the linux box working. The windows boxes work fine.
I think I am missing some key procedure in this. Can someone please tell me
what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Surya
