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[Edward Beatty <e.beatty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pro 7.3  (stock)

Need a little help with getting cable modem to connect to the Net.
Have Road Runner Modem feeding into a 4 port hub then 2 Windows
Machines and 1 SuSE 7.3 box.  Naturally the 2 Win machines were
set up and running within 6 minutes but I've been 72 hours on the 7.3
machine with no luck.

I did have a 4 machine LAN started prior to scraping it and trying for the high speed Cable.

I followed the instructions on page 87 of the 7.3 "Network" book and page 68 of the "Configuration" book.

The ISP supplies a dynamic address thus I used DHCP and I did purchase 3 IP addresses.

Here is output of ifconfig;

saffron:~ # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:3D:AB:C9
          inet6 addr: fe80::2a0:ccff:fe3d:abc9/10 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:2640 (2.5 Kb)  TX bytes:3238 (3.1 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:556 (556.0 b)  TX bytes:556 (556.0 b)

saffron:~ #

I just don't understand the concept of the cable modem.  Do I need to start some program in order to make it connect?  I did run "rcdhclient start" and it reported "done" but ping to the outside world would not work.

Please let me know what else I need to provide but don't tell me to RTFM . . . I've spent hours.

Frustrated and about to settle for 3 win machines,  Ed.