@Home Cable Modem and RedHat 6.0 -- no packets get past the cable modem at all!

@Home Cable Modem and RedHat 6.0 -- no packets get past the cable modem at all!

Post by Erik Schwieber » Wed, 18 Aug 1999 04:00:00



Well, I just installed RedHat 6 (i had 5.2 working very nicely with ADSL,
but then I moved...) and am completely unable to get it to talk to the
outside world via my new cable modem.

I have 2 NICs -- eth0 is an Intel eepro, and eth1 is a 3com 3c905b.  eth0 is
attched to the cable modem, and eth1 is attached to a hub for my internal
network.

Everything works fine under Win98 (ick.)  However, when I boot into linux, i
cant get any net connectivity at all.  if eth0 is set up to get its IP via
DHCP, it times out at boot and fails to activate.  If i set it up with a
static IP (yea, yea, i know TCI is handing out "dynamic IPs" but they are
essentially static) then the interface comes up, and i can ping both is and
eth1, but i cannot ping my gateway or any other external server.  No TX/RX
flashing lights on the cable modem either.

Anybody have a clue?  I'd guess some sort of routing issue, but even DHCP
fails to find a server to talk to to get its IP, way before any sort of
routing coud begin...

    Thanks!!!

Schwieb

 
 
 

@Home Cable Modem and RedHat 6.0 -- no packets get past the cable modem at all!

Post by Bob Tenne » Wed, 18 Aug 1999 04:00:00


 >Well, I just installed RedHat 6 (i had 5.2 working very nicely with ADSL,
 >but then I moved...) and am completely unable to get it to talk to the
 >outside world via my new cable modem.
 >
Upgrade to pump-0.7.0 and be sure the call to pump in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup has a -h hostname option.

Bob T.