What Oscar says is mostly true. It is not a requirement to have a firewall
to solve the routing problem, it's just that for plenty of other reasons
it's a good idea.
Also, I'm a bit concerned with the 10.x.x.x addresses, these are
designated as private IP space and you won't be able to reach them from
the internet - meaning everything must be masqueraded or go through ISP
proxies.
It may be the case that you have to go visit a web page and activate your
new ADSL account so that your ISP will turn on routing. I certainly had
this with Optus Dialup. Some ADSL providers also need you to call them to
activate the account.
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Dennis M. Gray wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running Red Hat 7.1 currently with a permanent dial-up link (56K) to my
> ISP. I have had ADSL provisioned but am having difficulty configuring
> it. I have a D-Link 302G modem. The eth0 interface is configured for
> DHCP and when activated gets an IP address of 10.1.1.5 from the modem.
> The gateway is 10.1.1.1 (inetstat -r reports this). The default routing
> is through the gateway.
>
> The ISP has assigned me a static IP address, which I can ping from my
> Linux box and from another network. The trouble is, I cannot ping
> anything other than that address, 10.1.1.1 or 10.1.1.4. I have disabled
> the firewall and still no luck.
>
> Can anyone help me in diagnosing what might be wrong. The configuration
> looks okay to me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dennis
>
>
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