Gary and Cindy Cote wrote:
>
> --- Matt Schalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > gc wrote:
> > >
> >
> >
> > Describe exactly what you did and what you saw, if
> > it's
> > still happeing and the DNS advice you got doesn't
> > fix it.
>
> o Downloaded Dachstein 1.0.2 distribution
> o Loaded it onto a floppy
> o Selected appropriate modules for my NIC cards
> in /etc/modules (8390 and ne2k)
Do either of these need pci-scan? I'm not looking
at the deps file right now, so I'm just curios.
> o Commented out the masq_quake module
> o Tried to enable a serial port console in
> /etc/inittab
> (which didn't work, btw, but i'll figure that out
> some other day)
> o Backed up /etc
> o Added a "send host-name" line to dhclient.conf
I didn't have to do that. Why don't you leave it
commented out for now. It may be sending an invalid
string.
> o Backed up dhclient
>
> o Rebooted
> o Observed the DHCP sequence go through successfully
> o Examined IP address and routing table. Nothing
> apparently out of the ordinary.
> o The 'ip route' command showed an entry that said
> something like this:
>
> 11.22.33.44/28 <...> src 22.33.44.55
>
> o I could not ping 11.22.33.44 (what I believe
> should be my next hop router, yes?)
> o I could ping 22.33.44.55
> o I could not ping any other nodes
>
> (Sorry I don't have exact IP addresses. I'm at work
> at the moment. I can supply them tonight if it would
> be helpful)
Yes those will be necessary. We'll need to see
the relevant portion of
dmesg
and the entire output of
ip addr show
ip route show
> > > If I hook my win2k box directly to the cable
> > modem, everything works fine.
> >
> > Yea yea. And if I suck Bill's cock, he might let me
> > drink
> > from the river of wealth.
>
>
> Now, now...that wasn't a jab...i was simply making the
> point that the problem appears to be on my end.
I can not believe I posted that. For the love of
Pete! You didn't do anything wrong at all.
> > Just so you know, it's common to get a new IP
> > address an whatnot
> > when you switch systems (and thus mac addresses) and
> > get a new lease.
> > I didn't have to touch a single dhcp setting to get
> > my friend's
> > attbi.com system in Petaluma, CA to work.
>
> That gives me an idea. I know someone who had a
> problem when they unplugged their old computer from
> the cable modem and plugged a new one in. Turned out
> the system 'remembered' their MAC address and would
> only give them one IP address (in that case, though,
> DHCP was failing). The technician told them to power
> down the modem for five minutes and that cleared it
> up. I don't fully understand why, but there it is.
>
> modem for five minutes. I'm not sure why that seemed
You're post cut off there, but the computer nics and
routers communicate by the hardware mac addresses burned
into the card, and the ip addresses are just numbers we
assign. When you release the lease, you clear out the
mac addy to ip addy mapping.
I was going to recommend that you use your windows box
to release the lease, but then I remembered you had
only Linux, so I erased it. I don't know how to release
the lease on Linux.
Good Luck,
Matthew
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