Mandrake 8.1; RCA 'Broadband' modem w/o obvious model#, CAT5-to-NIC
To those of you who went to Portland last night instead of coming to the
clinic: I recently got ATT cable; the service guy got it all running on my
Win98 partition, but w/o leaving any documentation. The only info I found
is from the win registry (attached at bottom).
My mdk 8.1 ran fine last night on the "Emerald Network"(thanks to bobVP
and Cory) with static IP using the same (and only NIC). Now, over my cable
modem (trying various settings) I was not able to get configured as DHCP
client (it fails pretty fast w/o long search).
The local IP I got from ATT remained the same from the beginning on
though I had my machine turned off for more than 1 day. I can even ping my
NIC under windos with the cable modem power turned off.
So I tried to make a static connection using the data I pulled out of the
win-registry (gateway and dns). That failed too. Interestingly again, when
I use my dialup modem to ssh to efn and then ping 'my ATT IP' from efn
shell I get a quick positive response --even if my cable modem power is
turned off!? (I can also ping some other ATT clients in the same subnet,
but not all within the subnet, so I conclude that ATT's response is
*somewhat* reasonable)
So what does ATT do with my to-and-from IP packets ???
- or do I need to take a class in routing 101 ? ... or in gatewading?
Since kbob alway askes for 'route -n' and 'ifconfig' I have attached a few
clips.
I am ready to pull my hair ... the little bit that's left!
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--------- route -n with working modem connection -------
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
206.163.184.194 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
12.255.128.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 206.163.184.194 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ppp0
--------- route -n with dysfunct eth0 ------------
HL: I SET GATEWAY TO 12.255.128.1 SO THE ~.0 CAME FROM MDK:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
12.255.128.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 12.255.128.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
------------- ping with dysfunct eth0 ---------------
PING efn (206.163.176.5) from 12.255.128.33 : 56(84) bytes of data.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (12.255.128.33): Destination Host Unreachable
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (12.255.128.33): Destination Host Unreachable
...
--- efn ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss
----------------- ifconfing with modem working --------
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:55:05:F7:4D:A9
inet addr:12.255.128.33 Bcast:12.255.129.255
Mask:255.255.254.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1212 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:186 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:74466 (72.7 Kb) TX bytes:13656 (13.3 Kb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:221 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:221 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:19472 (19.0 Kb) TX bytes:19472 (19.0 Kb)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:206.163.180.72 P-t-P:206.163.184.194
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:459 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:696 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:44463 (43.4 Kb) TX bytes:35520 (34.6 Kb)
--------------- win98 working ------------
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\BroadJump\CFD\ProfileManager\Persist\ATT_Broadband\System\systemNICs\2]
"driverDesc"="Realtek RTL8029(AS) Ethernet Adapt"
"__TypedriverDesc"="0"
"ipAddress"="12.225.128.33"
"__TypeipAddress"="0"
"subnetMask"="255.255.254.0"
"__TypesubnetMask"="0"
"defaultGateway"="12.225.128.1"
"__TypedefaultGateway"="0"
"macAddress"="52-55-05-f7-4d-a9"
"__TypemacAddress"="0"
"isDHCPEnabled"="true"
"__TypeisDHCPEnabled"="3"
"dnsServers"="204.127.198.4,63.240.76.4,204.127.198.4,63.240.76.4,204.127.198.4,63.240.76.4"
"__TypednsServers"="0"
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