Just installed mandrake as eh I r ubernewbie to linux and am familiar with mandrake. Everything went fine except when I tried to installed my dsl connection all of my infos fine I know that much. I dident do the dsl option from the mandrake controll center becuase my isp uses a static ip protocol for dsl

tried this too
http://forums.speakeasy.net/6/ubb.x?...032&m=63660181

Now the problem is I can ping my ip and i can ping 127.0.0.1 but when I try to ping my gateway I get.

[root@dsl92-234 dd5]# ping -c 5 XXX.XX.XXX.1
PING XX.XX.XXX.1 (XX.XX.XX.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From XXX.XXX.XXX.96 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From XX.XX.XXX.XX icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From XXX.XXX.XXX.XX icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From XXX.XXX.XXX.XX icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From XX.XXX.XX.96 <(myip) icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable

--- XXX.XXX.XXX.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +5 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4022ms
, pipe 3

1. you have ping-ed XXX.XX.XXX but the output lines said you have ping-ed XX.XX.XXX.1 - it is a typo error?
2. same question concerns the ping answers: in the lines you are using different number of 'X'
3. looks like you gateway is XXX.XXX.XXX.96 rather than XXX.XXX.XXX.1 - of course I am not sure that but you are getting the icmp responses from XXX.XXX.XXX.96 so either:
a. it is your gateway
or
b. a router (somewhere in the net) cannot route the packet

case (a): change default gateway to XXX.XXX.XXX.96
case (b): extract your default gateway using from the output of 'route -n'

err musta been old error from past install dident notice that , thanks the new one pings the gateway and gives me that error

wait no.. I checked it, its right

[root@dsl92-234 dd5]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
66.92.234.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 66.92.234.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
[root@dsl92-234 dd5]# ping -c 5 66.92.234.1
PING 66.92.234.1 (66.92.234.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 66.92.234.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +5 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4023ms
, pipe 3

from my comp the ping 66.92.234.1gives ok results:
64 octets from 66.92.234.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=.....
looks like badly configured NAT at router .....
forget about it for a moment and try ping any external address, for instance:
ping 64.179.4.146

[root@dsl92-234 dd5]# ping -c 5 64.179.4.146
PING 64.179.4.146 (64.179.4.146) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
From 66.92.234.96 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 64.179.4.146 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +5 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4021ms
, pipe 3

odd though I can get it to work fine on the windows HD

well, so to be sure use windows, and run 'ipconfig' - you'll find your ip, netmask and gateway addresses
if it turn out to be the same as under Linux - check your firewall settings
BTW: with Windows you also use static IPs?

yea its set to static on windows , same settings on windows. as for linux I set it to no firewalls on install unless theres another firewall setting blocking it.

any cmd to check?

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.92.234.96
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 66.92.234.1

I am not sure which firewall Mandrake uses so try (as root) both possiblities: 'iptables -L' and 'ipchains -L'
And next time PLEASE be so kind and mention that 66.92.234.96 is your IP address. Partially it is my fault also since the output of route cmd shows your IP but you have started with XXX...XXX so I've looked for everything but not this one :)

will do , and iptables and ipchains dident work , so went to the mandrake controll panel's firewall config and the firewall was disabled in there so I dun get it. Been two days now like this , my only problem with linux so far

Please let me know if your dsl connection require additional login action. I am asking about how it works with windows - do you just plug the cable to the eth socket, setup IPs and you can play with internet ? Or -maybe- you need for example run additional software or browse a special www site for login?
BTW: can you ping 66.92.234.1 successfully from windows?

Hi dd5, From your list you show IP, Subnet, and Default Gateway, but what of Host, DNS and if you use bootp/dhcp ?
My DSL arrangement reqires the following:
> IP
> Netmask
> NO bootp/dhcp
> Host name (can be bogus like name.org or .net , etc.)
> DNS Server
> Gateway (LAN card).

HTH,
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oNb

I never use any bootp or dhcp.
The dns is fine
yea it uses a fake hostname too
my isp has never used a hostname and runs under static ip

I am new to Mandrake. Linux for that matter. I am trying to install SBC DSL on the system and I am experiencing similar problems as the first question posed. I am trying to work with Mandrake Control Panel wizard. It picks out the eth card on eth0, then I go through the rest of the wizard, it picks pppoe, I say no to start up at boot and when I try to make the connection I get nothing.

I restarted the wizard and I changed it to ADSL, when I try to connect, I can see it transmitting but does not recieve anything. I have been playing around with this for a bout 3 days now. I do want to mention, I did get the DNS IP from SBC, that did absolutely nothing.

I did read in another listing to download the penguin ( forgive me, I forgot the name. I am not at home to see it.) pppoe software. I downloaded it off of disk, but it did nothing. I was hoping it would through up a GUI screen and ask me some questions and that would be it. Well, It didn't. It's not that I am lazy, I just do not know where to go to make any changes to the system in order to use the new software.

Any ideas to get me in the right direction would be appreciated.

yes yes yes , but the problem with me is my dsl is not ppp at all you dont even need a username and password it just goes on when your computer is on