On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:59:48AM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > ONBOOT=yes > SERVICE=ipv4-static > IP=<static addr given to me by ISP> > GATEWAY=<another static addr given to me by ISP> > PREFIX=32 > BROADCAST=<yet another static addr given to me by ISP>
If you say 'ping <gateway>', does it answer 'network unreachable' or something like that? Maybe it's not an IP network you're connecting to. It would help if you had tcpdump or ngrep to see what's going on out there. I don't think you're supposed to set the IP address yourself. If the ISP did it that way, anybody else could use your IP and pretend they were you. Did your ISP ask for the Mac address of your ethernet card? Then maybe your computer is supposed to have a DHCP client running. Did your ISP give you more than just an IP address? Maybe a user ID and a password? Let's assume it's PPPoE then. You don't give your ethernet card an IP address then. It must be 'up', but no IP address, especially not the IP address your ISP gave you. You'd need a driver that speaks PPPoE protocol. You can load the PPPoE kernel module, or, as an alternative, you can use the PPPoE driver known as the 'roaring penguin' driver. PPPoE is activated by the pppd, so you need the ppp package. Joern -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
