Trouble connecting my RH9 box to cable modem

ikuomanero · 04-15-2004, 12:31 AM

First off, I would like to apologize for my earlier posing 2.5 days ago. Unfortunately, I did not provide much information for anyone to eval my problem. Anyhow, I saw another posting similar to mine on another thread (#131618) and I followed some of the suggestions posted there. I still can't get a legit connection. Here is the output of some commands/files asked in that thread: Anyone here can help me?

Code:

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output of ifconfig:
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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:32:8B:FB  
          inet addr:24.242.9.243  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:30127 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:5 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:1867003 (1.7 Mb)  TX bytes:121724 (118.8 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:72608 (70.9 Kb)  TX bytes:72608 (70.9 Kb)

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output of resolv.conf:
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; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search elp.rr.com
nameserver 24.93.40.64
nameserver 24.93.40.65
nameserver 24.93.40.66

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output of netstat -rn:
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Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
24.242.8.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.248.0   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         24.242.8.1      0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

nightjar · 04-15-2004, 04:28 AM

But what is the trouble?

You can't navigate?
Can you ping?
Let us know more ...

ikuomanero · 04-15-2004, 01:27 PM

I can't ping, telnet, browse, traceroute, or anything else of such nature. In other words, I have an IP but I can't reach anywhere outside my machine.

I can however run a copy of CircleMUD's stock code on my machine, but can only telnet to 127.0.0.1 since it appears that even "localhost" cannot be reached.

michaelk · 04-15-2004, 05:57 PM

Are you running a firewall? The firewall might have ICMP requests disabled which will not allow pings.

ikuomanero · 04-16-2004, 10:42 AM

I don't have a firewall. Unless RH9 has one built in, which in this case I don't know about. I don't think my ISP has a firewall either.

Put it this way: my computer runs WinXPPro, WinME, and RH9. I can surf, telnet, ping, etc. on WinXP and WinME. RH9 on the other hand, I can't do anything that accesses the internet like I can on Windows.

If RH9 has a firewall, can someone tell me how to find out if it's active and if so how to deactivate it?

AutOPSY · 04-17-2004, 12:41 AM

type setup at a shell ass root, goto firewall options. and set to low.

although your eth0 seems to be fine.

Could be several things like the default gateway or your routers firewaall even.