Um, yes, it's not a cable modem. :) It's kind of a phone modem - it uses the phone wiring in the apartment complex to connect to a line-of-sight transmitter on top of the building to provide high-speed access. It's not the modem. I saw it work just fine on another computer (a W2K box).
I truly suspect it's something I'm doing wrong. I had thought from the previous response that it might be the itpables firewall but I cleared the iptables like so: iptables clear and this didn't seem to make any difference. Any other ideas? On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Jason McCarty wrote: > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:6A:A8:9F > > inet addr:192.168.168.120 Bcast:192.168.168.255 > > Based on this, I'd say it's a problem with your cable modem connecting > to your ISP (assuming it's cable). Your modem probably configures itself > as a DHCP server when it's not on the Internet, which is why it handed > out that private address to you. Mine does the same thing when it's > having trouble getting on the net. Your modem likely has a web status > page, so try browsing to that and look at its status report. For > example, my modem has the address 192.168.100.1. Read your modem manual > if you can find one, too. > > If your modem isn't the problem, you might have to send your ISP a > hostname or other silly authentication. Also try different dhcp clients, > like pump or udhcpc. Have you connected the modem to more than one > computer? Some modems don't allow that. To fix it, you'd probably have > to hard reset the modem, but it may have an option to reset it on the > web status page. > > I think your best bet is to read the cable modem HOWTO on www.tldp.org. > It has information on many many cable ISPs, and the steps necessary to > cope with the difficult ones. There's also a DHCP HOWTO there. Of > course, if you don't have cable, feel free to ignore this :) > > Good luck. > > Jason McCarty > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelbauer.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
