Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

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Subject: Re: [SLE] DHCP problems using cable modem
Date: Thursday 29 January 2004 22:43 pm
From: Tom Reagan <tom_is_my_name@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Dylan,

Thanks...you were dead on with #3!  As soon as I set
it to yes...boom...I could ping the gateway.  (My gut
was the firewall too, but I would have never guessed
why, so thanks again.)

Two more things I had to fix after that though...
1. I set the hostname to what I call my machine and
the domain to "local".  I then clicked OFF the "Change
hostname via DHCP."  I clicked ON the "Update name
servers and search list via DHCP."

Also, I set the router Gateway to xxx.yyy.xxx.1

(Trying to be complete for the archive.)

Tom
wmeler

--- Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2004 20:57 pm, Tom Reagan
>
> wrote:
> > Just made the leap to a cable modem through
>
> Earthlink (installed by
>
> > Time Warner Cable...the guy told me it's the same
>
> as RoadRunner).
>
> > Anyway, it's working fine for my Windoze laptop
>
> with DHCP. Trying to
>
> > get my SuSE 8.1 Professional box running as well
>
> (in terms of a
>
> > network connection via eth0 through the cable
>
> modem).
>
> > I know the hardware is working fine because I have
>
> ftp'ed (in my home
>
> > network) to and from the Linux box (via the
>
> Windoze laptop) many
>
> > times on eth0 (using the same cables).
> >
> > When I do an "ifup eth0" I get the following
>
> message:
> > "Starting DHCP Client Daemon on eth0... . . . . .
>
> . . . . . . . . . .
>
> > no IP address yet... backgrounding"
> >
> > Then if I try to do a ping, I get:
> > "connect: Network is unreachable"
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated
> > Thoughts of what's wrong--but no idea really:
> > 1)DNS
>
> If you can't get a network connection the DNS isn't
> going to work anyway
> - the problem is unlikely to lie there at this stage
>
> > 2)DHCP configured wrong
>
> Hmmm maybe... Some cablemodem services (SFAIUI)
> 'lock' onto a single MAC
> address - you could try getting your NIC to spoof
> the MAC address of
> the NIC on the Win box
>
> > 3)Firewall on my machine is causing problems
>
> In YaST>System>Editor for SuSE config files -
> network - firewall make
> sure the FW_SERVICES_DHCLIENT setting is "yes" and
> try again
>
> HTH
>
> Dylan
>
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