[NTLUG:Discuss] @Home connection problems. Can't even ping.

[bobby@wrennest.com]

Do eth0 and eth1 come up during boot? Run ifconfig to make sure both
cards are configured properly. Can you ping the external card from the
linux box it is installed in?

Bobby
Kipton Moravec wrote:
> 
> I am having trouble getting my Linux Mandrake 6.1 box to see my @home cable
> modem.  I have a Win 98 box working on the modem fine.  I have moved all the
> important IP addresses, static address from @Home, gate ways, DNS Name
> servers, etc to the Linux box.
> 
> When I ping the gateway address with the Linux box the cable modem lights
> blink, but I get no response. The windows box pings it fine.
> 
> The Linux box is planned to be a fire wall, and has two Ethernet cards.
> Both successfully ping my internal net when they are plugged into the
> internal network. When I try to ping the external network no response from
> any address or either card.
> 
> There are no errors at boot, no messages in any error logs, all conf files
> were triple checked.
> 
> We are stuck, and have no idea what to try.  The internal network works
> fine. Both cards are seen.  It should not be this hard.
> 
> What else should we look at?
> 
> Kip
> 
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