Assign the default gw (gateway) address. Most likely this will be 192.168.1.1
- your pings are going to you eth0 card, but it doesn't know where to go from
that point.
-Chris
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am trying to connect my box running linux-mandrake 7.2 with @Home. I am
> able to configure the eth0 interface and it does show up when I do a
> ifconfig and a netstat -r. I used netconf to assign the host name, DNS
> server names etc. While I am able to ping the machine with the IP address i
> give to the eth0 interface, I cannot reach anything outside the box.
>
> This is a short summary of what I did:
>
> # insmod rtl8139
> # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> # route add default eth0
>
> after that i went into netconf and gave it the host name, DNS server
> address etc. I check all the related .conf files.
>
> If i ping 192.168.1.10 it goes through. But if try to ping anything else it
> just fails.
>
> I tried using dhclient to see if it is able to reach @Home's DHCP server
> but to no avail.
>
> Another thing that I noticed is that every time I reboot, the eth0
> interface fails to come up and I have to manually bring up that interface.
>
> This is my setup, I have a a nic connected to a hub, connected to a cable
> modem. I have two other windows boxes connected to the hub, which I turned
> off as I first wanted to get the linux box working. The windows boxes work
> fine.
>
> I think I am missing some key procedure in this. Can someone please tell me
> what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Surya
