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
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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