[newbie] Cable Modem Woes
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
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Woes
I may be breathing air too close to the exhaust pipe, but I had the same eth0 failed during initialize message as you. I solved it by doing a total re-install of Linux on my machine. Not knowing what I was doing during the first install, but after the third install I've never had the eth0 problem again. Oh well, that's my story -- I'm sure somebody else has a better solution on this list... Dave - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Cable Modem Woes 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
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Woes
Assign the default gw (gateway) address. Most likely this will be 192.168.1.1 - your pings are going to you eth0 card, but it doesn't know where to go from that point. -Chris On Wednesday 24 January 2001 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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
