Re: [Plug] redhat, linksys, and suburban@home :-(

["LeRoy D. Cressy" <ldc@netaxs.com>]

Hi Michelle,

As I was reading your message I became confused.   Are you trying to use
one box with a cable modem and connect another box to it through the
ethernet?

If this is the case, have you set up named on the box that has the cable
modem and use that as a name server for your private network?  Please
read the networking howto on how to make the forwarders and everything
else work.  Also, check your /etc/resolv.conf and your /etc/hosts file.  

Can you ping the isp from the box that does not have the cable modem?

I hope that this helps :-)

Michelle Weber wrote:
> 
> Hi, I am having a slight problem with my redhat 6.0 box, with a linksys
> card, and my freshly installed suburban@home cable modem.
> If anyone has any ideas on what might be wrong, I would definitely try
> anything at this point.
> Suburban won't really help me because I'm using linux, and they say they
> can ping my modem, just not my ip.
> What I have set up is redhat 6.0 box, with a 2.2.10 kernel i just
> compiled.  I compiled in support for my ethernet card, which is really
> just a ne2000 pci compatible card.  A friend of mine uses comcast@home,
> with redhat 6.0, and the same exact nic card I have. (In fact, I set up
> that machine myself, and compiled a kernel similar to mine, which works
> fine, I'm using the box right now)
> I set everything up using netconf, I put in my host name, domain name,
> name servers, netmask, picked eth0 for the device, and the default
> gateway, all as they appear on the little config sheet, and I've checked


Don't you want the default gateway to be the isp box that you are
connecting to through the cable modem?  In the /etc/ppp/options file can
make this happen automatically when you fire up pppd



> many many many times to make sure everything is entered correctly in here.
> When the machine starts up, I see it find the ethernet card, when lo, and
> eth0 start up they say "OK".  When I do a /sbin/ifconfig, the card and
> localhost are there, when I do a /sbin/route, everything looks normal,
> when I look at /proc/interrupts there are no conflicts.
> I can ping localhost, and my own ip, but I can't ping anywhere else, not
> even the gateway.  I can ping the gateway from here though, so I know it's
> up.  I know data is being sent out, the little lights on the card and the
> modem blink, and the cable light is steady, which means I should have a
> connection, yet nothing seems to work.

have you tried to see what tpcd -i ppp0 to see the activity going across
the modem?

> The only suggestions I've gotten so far are the ethernet cable, I tried
> both the one that came with the card, and the one that Suburban cable
> provided me, and the other is that the card is bad.
> Can anyone think of anything else other than the card is bad?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> 
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
> 
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