On Friday 23 January 2004 06:02 pm, Merlin Zener wrote:
->Again, on advice from ppl here, I found out how to set the NIC to a
->static address, but then found that it had killed my net connection. To
->be specific, the modem would dial and connect to the ISP, but no data
->would come down - not mail, nor web pages, usenet, ICQ, etc. I've been
->going around in circles since - it seems I can have one or the other: if
->I set the NIC to a static address, the two machines will ping but I lose
->the internet; if I set the NIC to auto, I can use the internet but the
->two machines won't ping. [and, Mandrakes hangs on booting at the
->"bringing up ETH0" line]
->
->That's where I'm at atm.
Er, I've not been following this thread but did you check your
/etc/sysconfig/network file:
Back when I had dial-up, it looked like this:
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=true
HOSTNAME=darkforce.ky
DOMAINNAME=org
GATEWAY=
GATEWAYDEV=ppp0
This is an old backup file, but it seems that GATEWAY should have had my ISPs
IP address there.
You can try it both ways to see.
Don't forget to restart your network after making changes, and you may have to
reboot (don't know about that part).
HTHs.
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