DHCP conflicts?
Greetings
Running a DSL internet connection to a Actiontec modem. The windows machine is connected via wireless and works fine except for the daily 'blue screen of death' Hence the attempted migration to linux... be advised: linux newbie! Running Fedora 4 on a amd 900mhz, connected to Actiontec dsl modem via hardwire and network card. Card is functional Internet access was intermittent (some pages loaded, most did not) until running across dhcp mini how to. Unfortunately, can't post the url until I've made three posts to the forum. As root, added "route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth0" Internet access improved significantly under root expect "ping" which produced 100% packet loss. Also, after logging in as "any user" internet access returns to intermittent (some pages load, most do not) What more do I need to do? Thanks in advance |
Hi,
DHCP should give you an IP address, a netmask, a gateway and at least one nameserver. the IP address is your address, the mask gives you the information of who's on the same network as you are. The gateway is the IP that is the gate to the other networks (internet) and the nameserver is the IP of a machine translating IP addresses to names (and the other way round) so that you can ping www.google.com instead of 66.102.9.104 Since DHCP gives you a gateway, you shouldn't have to use the route command (which is use to manually add routes, ie gateways to other networks). Could you please post the output of the following commands, as root: ifconfig -a route -n cat /etc/resolv.conf iptables -L Also, if you know it, give us the IP address of your dsl modem. |
thanks for the info
here is the requested output: [root@localhost ~]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:66:BB:EF inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:daff:fe66:bbef/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:127905 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0 TX packets:117664 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:97037861 (92.5 MiB) TX bytes:15415069 (14.7 MiB) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xfc00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2765874 (2.6 MiB) TX bytes:2765874 (2.6 MiB) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) [root@localhost ~]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 [root@localhost ~]# iptables -L Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp any ACCEPT ipv6-crypt-- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT ipv6-auth-- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT udp -- anywhere 224.0.0.251 udp dpt:5353 ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ipp ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:ssh ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:http ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:ftp ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:smtp REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited [root@localhost ~]# File Contents of the etc/resolv.conf search localdomain nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.5 LAN IP address 192.168.0.1 |
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