Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Vaidhy: Thanks for all your help. The the Net-3-HOWTO combined with some info I found from my local LUG's mail archives got me going. Everything I had seemed to be okay, I just added: route add default gw ${GATEWAY} eth0 to my /etc/init.d/network file and I was able to ping my nameservers. I'

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi Mark, Couple of things. /etc/init.d/network is not your normal stop, start, restart stuff.. It just executes a series of command. your resolv.conf should have search your.domain.com nameserver 1 nameserver 2 nameserver 3 .. For eg, I call my network at home loonys.net. so my resolv.conf wi

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. > take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it > like this. > [config info snipped] > > This code brings up the network. you might want t

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. > take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it > like this. > [Config info clipped] > This code brings up the network. you might want to

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi Mark, I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it like this. ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.16