Recently i have installed Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 sp1 10.1-0, but after installing Suse (Sled 10) i am now not able to ping my modem (IP add. 192.168.1.1), i have given static ip as 192.168.1.3, but it is pining 192.168.1.3 (i.e. self).
Also i have tried ping by removing firewall, but that is also not working, then i have given the "Nameserver as 192.168.1.1" (ip of modem), but even then it is not working. then tried to modify /etc/resolve.conf by manually putting the value as " nameserver 192.168.1.1" but even that is not working.
I am having an ADSL2 Modem for broadband connection which is working absolutely fne in Windows XP, but not in Sled 10.

what is your default GW?

192.168.1.1

the same as that of modem ip.

could you give us the output from

Do you use a modem or router?

thanku sir,
I don't know what has been changed in 2 days but this reply i am sending from Suse (Linux).
You must be surprised, even i was when after rebooting today i found that the modem is pinging, i can connect using Kinternet.

Well still thank to you and this forum, for the support.

Hello friends,
I am here again with the same problem, today after 2 days when restarted the Suse Linux Enterprise desktop 10 SP1 10.1-0 (Sled 10), again i am not able to ping the modem, and the o/p of the above command is as given below

Slinux-9uh7:~ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:18:A7:5C:4F
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea7:5c4f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:209 Base address:0xe000

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:143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9424 (9.2 Kb) TX bytes:9424 (9.2 Kb)

Slinux-9uh7:~ # route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

also i think that their must be some service or configuration that is changing every time i am booting up and thus making me unable to ping to modem.

Your Bcast is wrong, should be 192.168.1.255
How do you connect, do you use fixed ip's or dhcp ?

i use fixed (i.e. static) ip, and i have configured these ip's.

But one more thing if my Broadcast ip is wrong, how come i was able to ping (and even surf net), to the modem.

Slinux-9uh7:~ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:18:A7:5C:4F
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:18ff:fea7:5c4f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:125 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:209 Base address:0x6000

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:227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:16734 (16.3 Kb) TX bytes:16734 (16.3 Kb)
Slinux-9uh7:~ # route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 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
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

now this is the result of setting done through ifup traditional setup.
previously i was using networkmanager setup which was causing this problem.

here again i am using static IP.

and now does it work?

no offcourse that is why i am here.

well again today after rebooting the modem is pinging.
can anybody tell me what is going on, how come this is pinging some time and not pinging at other time.