I think I've configured everything right, but I still can't connect to the Internet

Travis86 · 12-17-2003, 11:56 PM

I finally got my router configured and my Windows computer on the Internet trough the router, now I'm trying to get my Linux-running Playstation 2 on the Internet.

First, I've got a Linksys Etherfast broadband router/switch configured as a gateway at 10.0.0.1 .

ifconfig's out put from the PS2 (excluding lo):

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <etc>
          inet addr:10.0.0.3 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

And route:

Code:

Destination Gateway   Genmask          Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
10.0.0.3    *         255.255.255.255  UH    0      0     0 eth0  
10.0.0.0    *         255.255.255.0    U     0      0     0 eth0
127.0.0.0   *         255.0.0.0        U     0      0     0 lo
default     10.0.0.1  0.0.0.0          UG    0      0     0 eth0

(BTW, it prints the first three addresses quickly, but takes a long time before it prints the default destination. I don't know if that's something to worry about or not.)

I can ping my router, my other computer, and 127.0.0.1, but I can't ping Google.

From what I read, this is all I'm supposed to do. Why won't it work?

ugob · 12-18-2003, 12:20 AM

See my signature.

beyer42 · 12-18-2003, 12:36 AM

The default IP adress of the router is 192.168.1.1
I would recommend using that as router instead of 10.0.0.1

Go to System Settings -> Network , then choose Edit on the interface
and under General tab choose to have DHCP automatically set the
IP address.

make sure that /etc/resolv.conf has the following entry
nameserver 192.168.1.1

try rebooting. if you still cannot connect , then you can go
to http://192.168.1.1 login and configure the router to automatically
handle the PPPoe login and enter your login and password for
your ISP.

Travis86 · 12-18-2003, 11:27 AM

Hmmm... /etc/resolv.conf ? Never heard of it, but after a little investigation, I found that to be the problem. Now it works! Well, sorta. The PS2 comes with a bug in the eth0 driver, but that's another story.

Also, I don't see why I should keep my router on 192.168.1.1 if my computers are on 10.0.0.*.

Thanks

ugob · 12-18-2003, 12:11 PM

finally, having this signature pays off

For the adress range, the only hypothesis is that maybe the router cannot deal properly with address ranges out of 192.168./16. I've never seen that in real life, but it was a good suggestion from beyer42.

Of course if you change your router's address, you must change all your computers' also. Is there a reason why you don't use DHCP?