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

[Jay Urish]

At 02:29 PM 5/25/00 , you wrote:


>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?
>

Yes I have.. I ran tcpdump and it said that it was putting the card in that 
mode.

I didn't see anything come through though...






>"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.
>
>What else should we look at?
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>Kip
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Jay Urish
Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
www.dalwan.net