| Stephen Gran on 13 Aug 2005 02:27:29 -0000 |
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:59:50PM -0400, Douglas Lentz said: > 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. This indicates that the broadband 'modem' is a transparent bridge, and if you are set up for DHCP, it will not intercept the DHCP requests, or make them for you. > 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? Use the hub, unless you are using a crossover cable. > 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 This looks like you have your IP set to a static, but private, network address. Since you need DHCP, this won't work. If you want to ping the modem, try DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no PEERDNS=no TYPE=Ethernet IPADDR=10.0.0.3 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 NETWORK=10.0.0.0 BROADCAST=10.0.255.255 GATEWAY=10.0.0.2 I think - I am less familiar wiht RH networking arrangements than with Debian. I think you'll basically want to set the above to use dhcp client, and see if that works for you, though. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | The game of life is a game of | | steve@lobefin.net | boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | words return to us sooner or later | | | with astounding accuracy. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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