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

[James L. Skidmore]

Redhat lists problems with the pump package shipped with 6.1. Perhaps you
should upgrade pump?

http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-6.html

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On Thu, 25 May 2000 Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com wrote:

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> Two things to try:
> 1) Once I had a problem with my cable modem that was only resolved after I
> turned off (and pulled all the plugs) the cable modem for at least 3 minutes.
> 2) Have you tried forcing the ethernet card into promiscuous mode?
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> "Kipton Moravec" <kip at kdream.com> on 05/24/2000 07:24:28 PM
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> Subject:  [NTLUG:Discuss] @Home connection problems. Can't even ping.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> There are no errors at boot, no messages in any error logs, all conf files
> were triple checked.
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> 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.
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> What else should we look at?
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> Kip
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