It turns out that the problem was the network card-- the cablemodem didn't
like it. Switching that network card with the one used for the internal
network (Tulip chipset) fixed everything.
Thanks to everyone who helped-- even the responses that weren't directly
responsible for the solution gave
-Original Message-
From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:37 AM
To: Debian List
Subject: Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)
Michael Patterson, 2001-Nov-11 16:33 -0700:
When I hook up my linux box to it, I get terrible performance
What distro is this? I remember dhcp-client from potato didn't work so
well for me, but the one from Woody has been great - same provider, so
we're all in the same boat with the (maybe) impending bankruptcy. I
would look in other places if the static setup is also failing - it
sounds like
Ok, I'm totally frustrated. To bring anyone who doesn't know up to date:
My previous service was wantweb. I was given a static IP address, upon
which I set up a debian (potato) box. I used IP masquerading to connect all
my windows boxes to it (for game playing, you know).
Now I find that the
Michael Heldebrant, 2001-Nov-11 11:06 -0600:
On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 00:26, Michael Patterson wrote:
Ok, I'm totally frustrated. To bring anyone who doesn't know
up to date:
My previous service was wantweb. I was given a static IP
address, upon
which I set up a debian (potato) box
Now I find that the company is going under. enter the cablemodem. I have
cablemodem service with Adelphia cable. ( @home). it works
beautifully when
I hook up a single windows machine to it, using DHCP.
You either need to get your DHCP client to pass a hostname on to the
DHCP server
[Snipped suggestion to compile in CONFIG_FILTER]
This worked. It worked really well. DHCP now appears to work with one minor
problem--
It appears that the DNS isn't being caught by the DHCP-Client. My
resolv.conf is left with nothing but search in it-- and this appears to be
causing some
My connection seems to be working fine through the cablemodem now, with very
little difficulty (although it's still slow-- I need to look into that)
the current problem is that we use IPMASQ, and play a game called Dark Age
of Camelot on the masqueraded win98 systems, which worked fine when I was
I'm responding to everyone in one message. The cablemodem setup still isn't
working. Commenting on each part individually:
[Donald]
---snip---
Also, ifconfig doesn't show eth0. When I was running
DHCP-client, eth0 did
show up, but without an IP address (not even 0.0.0.0, which is
what I
(continuation of DHCP and Adelphia cable)
Right now I'm in the process of testing the connection to see if I can find
the problem, and the problem appears to be something with my linux setup.
Here's what I've done:
* I had a working setup using eth0 connected to a router to the internet
Yesterday I finally got my cable modem (Adelphia). Hooked it up to windows,
and it worked wonderfully. I was told that, in general, Adelphia doesn't
change the IP information, and it would be safe to copy it to the Debian
box. So I wrote down the information, moved the cable modem over to my
Ok, I recently got a Maxtor 80Gb HD, so I figured I'd start with a fresh
install of Potato on my system. My problem is that I can't seem to get a
kernel that gives me both IP Masquerading and support for the drive.
Now, on the kernels that the Masquerading fails on, it isn't a total
failure.
Michael Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MP Ok, I recently got a Maxtor 80Gb HD, so I figured I'd start
with a fresh
MP install of Potato on my system. My problem is that I can't
seem to get a
MP kernel that gives me both IP Masquerading and support for the drive.
MP
MP Now
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