trouble connecting to @home cable modem

[John W]

On Monday 25 December 2000 07:07, you wrote:
 FWIW I personally have always configured my cable modem statically. I have 
tried DHCP and haven't found success. I subscribe to another Linux list as 
well and others seem to have problems with @home and DHCP. I can't offer any 
suggestions why that is but I know with a static setup I have had no problems.
John W
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jose D Castillo" <jcastill@lurch.purplefeet.net>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 2:39 AM
> Subject: Re: trouble connecting to @home cable modem
>
> > Call your cable company and make sure they can see your modem, they
> > should be able to see it even it you have no computers connected to it.
> > Then find out if they can give you a static address scheme. It can save
> > you time to use static instead of DHCP. If they can, then make sure they
> > give you the following information:
> >
> > Static IP adress
> > Default Gateway
> > Netmask
> > DNS servers
> >
> > If they can't, then you are at their mercy. You said you set up your
> > interface for DHCP and your output indicates you got and IP address, but
> > you may not be getting default route and DNS information. Call them and
> > ask them for that information. If they have their DHCP server setup
> > right, you should get that info when you connect, but it doesn't look
> > like you are, that is why I suggest going the static route.
> > Good Luck!
> >
> > Live long and prosper.
> >
> > On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Tim Cutler wrote:
> > > After vast efforts scouring the net and reading man pages and HOWTO's,
> > > I still can't get my new RH 7 linux box to connect to the internet via
> > > cox@home cable modem.
> > >
> > > Can anyone shed light on the tcpdump data below, at the bottom? To me,
> > > it looks like my box is asking for the MAC address of the gateway, and
> > > getting no response. In fact, I get the same output if I take off the
> > > cable connection. Hence, the connection is dead as a door nail. I've
> > > done dhcpcd -h CX538-A eth0, and countless other things.
> > >
> > > If you have solved this problem, I'd would sure like to get in contact
> > > with you. I'm pretty much stumped at this point.
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ifconfig output:
> > >
> > > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:BA:44:77:09
> > >           inet addr:24.1.249.49  Bcast:24.1.255.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
> > >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> > >           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800
> > >
> > > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> > >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> > >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:1917 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:1917 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > netstat -nr output:
> > >
> > > Kernel IP routing table
> > > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window 
> > > irtt Iface
> > > 24.1.248.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.248.0   U         0 0         
> > > 0 eth0
> > > 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U         0 0         
> > > 0 lo
> > > 0.0.0.0         24.1.248.1      0.0.0.0         UG        0 0         
> > > 0 eth0
> > > 0.0.0.0         24.1.248.1      0.0.0.0         UG        0 0         
> > > 0 eth0
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ping 24.1.248.1 output:
> > > PING 24.1.248.1 (24.1.248.1) from 24.1.249.49 : 56(84) bytes of data.
> > > From 24.1.249.49: Destination Host Unreachable
> > > From 24.1.249.49: Destination Host Unreachable
> > > From 24.1.249.49: Destination Host Unreachable
> > > ...
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > tcpdump -i eth0 output:
> > > Kernel filter, protocol ALL, datagram packet socket
> > > tcpdump: listening on eth0
> > > 16:19:40.380943 > arp who-has 24.1.248.1 tell 24.1.249.49
> > > (0:50:ba:44:77:9)
> > > 16:19:41.381069 > arp who-has 24.1.248.1 tell 24.1.249.49
> > > (0:50:ba:44:77:9)
> > > 16:19:42.380945 > arp who-has 24.1.248.1 tell 24.1.249.49
> > > (0:50:ba:44:77:9)
> > > 16:19:43.380948 > arp who-has 24.1.248.1 tell 24.1.249.49
> > > (0:50:ba:44:77:9)
> > > ...
> > >
> > >
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