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

[Jay Urish]

At 07:56 PM 5/24/00 , you wrote:
>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?

Both cards come up. The internal card is pingable from the clean side.

I am lost.. It should'nt be this hard.



>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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Jay Urish
Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
www.dalwan.net