That is what it looks like to me. You are using Ethernet cables for all the connections right? I don't think 1.3 supports USB for motorola modems, and even 1.4 probably does not. Check your MD5 sums of your downloaded ISO again. Sometimes weird things happen, burn ok, installs ok, flakes out, and the md5 is corrupted. ALWAYS check MD5 of ISO's before burning. Check all link lights to make sure physical connections are ok between cable modem and red nic. Try a different red nic, maybe even a swap between red and green. Looks like red needs to be told what to do, so put in all those real world static IP settings for the red interface that Telstra told you your modem was. You can login again as user called setup to run the config again without restarting, but make sure your MD5 is correct. It looks like it is so close to working and you have some kind of physical problem like a bad nic or cable between modem and red nic to me. Ciao, Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Darby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 8 May 2004 1:27 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IPCop postinstall David Taylor wrote: > Chris, does your cable modem do NAT and assign your pc a 192.x IP address > and provide DHCP for your network?? If so, just tell your IPcop RED that it > is DHCP provided info, and you should be done. > > Possible confusion point here, I think. Gave all of the above suggestions a go- thanks everyone. With just telling RED to use DHCP info, having a look at the box's http config shows that eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:73:60:F7 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1414 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1813 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:148 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:230556 (225.1 Kb) TX bytes:938560 (916.5 Kb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:D2:04:6D:F9 BROADCAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2360 (2.3 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x3000 Does this mean that the NIC on eth1 (RED) isn't seeing the modem or being told where it is? And this is perhaps a dirty question.. but is it possible with IPCop to have the cable modem connected via USB? I'm just about at the point of cutting my losses and moving on, but even if I do it's been interesting and a learning experience. Thanks Chris.
