[PLUG] Just trying to ping my DSL modem

[Douglas Lentz <dlentz@dca.net>]

Hi all. Back on 7/21 Luke, David and Christopher were good enough to 
respond to me re my problems with getting my Verizon DSL connection (my 
ISP is dca.net) up. Unfortunately, just when they responded to me I had 
a series of exams at Drexel, and was not able to implement their 
suggestions then. I have just gotten back to the problem now.

To make a long story short, I have had DSL for a month now, without 
getting/receiving one byte. But that may not be an extraordinary 
experience :-)

I have a "static" IP address from DCANET, which means that they promise 
to keep assigning me the same one via DHCP. (Some confusion surrounds 
this point. This definition of static IP address is NOT the one the 
modem's manufacturer has in mind). I believe that DHCP is failing on my 
RH9 box because I cannot establish connectivity with the ADSL modem, 
period. So this is not a request to help me get my connection up;  at 
this point, a success condition would be pinging the modem, which I 
cannot do at this point. OR, another way to say this is that I may need 
to build a case that the modem is defective, but I would like to 
establish that scientifically.

Before anything happens, I need to be able to connect to the modem.

The modem is a  Zoom 5515 ADSL Bridge. Now according to its docs (which 
assume Windows user and PPPoe, neither of which is true in my case), if 
my DSL connection was of the PPPoe variety I should, in ifcfg-eth0, set 
the IPADDR to 10.0.0.3. Additionally, the modem is supposed to have 
configuration software at 10.0.0.2.

Please correct me if I am mistaken, I am more of a DBA type than a 
network person. My idea is: I have a home network. I should be able to 
pull the ethernet cable running from the RH9 box to the hub OUT of the 
hub, plug the cable into the modem, and ping the modem at either 
10.0.0.3 or 10.0.0.2, and I should get a response even if the modem 
isn't connected to the phone line. Am I correct?

My ifcfg-eth0 file is

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
TYPE=Ethernet
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1

It occured to me that I might need a route to modem; but doing a route 
add -net 10.0.0.3 just gets me the "Unknown host" error message.

The big question is, did dcanet ship me a defective modem?

Thanks a lot, everyone!







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