Help with Cox

[Jay Kalafus]

David Demland wrote:

> I am having a problem with my Linux box. I am running RH 6.1. I have
> tried to use DHCP to connect to Cox and I have even use the Static IP
> that is listed on my Cox paper work. In either case I can not ping
> outside the cable modem. When I try to use my work name of
> www.cadtel.com, or the IP that it pings backs with on my PC,
> 192.41.26.139 I get an error message. The name will say that the host
> is unreachable. It there something with the IP chaining I must do
> first to get out the cable modem?

When trying to get dhcpcd to work, did you include your cox "username"
?  The last cable modem I setup required you to include "-I <ClientID>"
for it to work.

If you are running Ipchains, I would flush your ruleset until you can
get connectivity to the outside, this
lets you know that your firewall rules are not causing the problem.
Once it works, turn them back on
and go from there.

Also, have you reset your cable modem? and do you have your default
route set correctly?

'netstat -r ' should look similar to the following.....

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask             Flags   MSS
Window  irtt Iface
huffy                *                     255.255.255.255    UH
0            0          0 eth0
192.168.0.0      *                     255.255.255.0        U
0             0          0 eth0
24.1.244.0        *                     255.255.252.0        U
0             0          0 eth1
127.0.0.0          *                     255.0.0.0
U          0             0          0 lo
default              24.1.244.1     0.0.0.0                    UG
0            0          0 eth1



Jay.....