Unable to get online

Craig White wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:39, FrankMandato wrote:
>
>> When I use dhcp and activate eth0 I get a "Determining IP iformation
>>for eth0... failed" errormessage. I ahve disabled my firewall as well as
>>iptables and still can't get out.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> FrankM
>>
>>Jeffrey Pyne wrote:
>>
>>>Are you assigning a static IP address to eth0? If so, that might be your
>>>problem. Cox wants you to use DHCP. Change the configuration of eth0 so
>>>that it grabs its IP address, default gateway, netmask, etc. from Cox's
>>>servers and try again. You may have to power off your cable modem for a
>>>minute or two to clear its cache in order for your RH box to obtain an IP
>>>address from DHCP.
>>>
>>>Also, if your firewall rules are blocking ICMP, that might be why you can't
>>>ping anything. Try stopping your firewall and see if you can ping your
>>>default gateway, nameservers, www.google.com, etc.
>>>
>>>HTH,
>>>
>>>Jeff
>>>
>>>On Monday, July 07, 2003 9:10 AM, FrankMandato wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I also changed my IP address to 68.98.10.73, but the
>>>>routing table never changes, I tried adding that address
>>>>manually, but I get an error message that the netmask
>>>>does not match the IP address, the netmask I use is
>>>>255.255.255.240 for the new address.
>>>>
>---------
>One little but very important detail for Cox & cable modems - they hold
>out for a single MAC address, I presume as a security caution to keep
>them from being hijacked.
>
>If you pull the power plug on the cable modem for 5 minutes and then
>plug it back in, it will reset the modem, reload its configuration from
>Cox's TFTP server and allow you to switch MAC addresses
>(computers/network cards)
>
>Try it
>
>Craig
>
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That did the trick, I never even thought about resetting the cable
modem ---duh.

Thanks for all the help.

FrankM