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Lost my ethernet connection

I disconnected for my cable modem and when I tried to reconnect I lost my connection. Firedfox just hangs and gives an error msg.

I did run ifconfig eth0, this is the result

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig eth0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:56:B6:6A:36

inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX  Bcast:XXX.XXX.XXX  Mask:XXX.XXX.XXX

inet6 addr: feXX::20d:56ff:feb6:6a36/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

RX packets:2805 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:81 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:183873 (179.5 KiB)  TX bytes:6787 (6.6 KiB)

Interrupt:7

When I had it originally working I used static settings. I thought I did it right but I guess I was wrong. Any suggestions would be appreciated?

Interesting, one would expect dhcp setup for use with a cable modem.
Can you ping an outside IP?

Did you change anything after unplugging the modem, which you had to remember how to put back when you re-plugged the modem?

ping says unknown host name. ::(:

Great - this means you're not connecting to the internet at all.

You may be best to set the thing up from scratch again.
Try using dhcp this time. Let the modem/isp do all the hard work :)

When you report the result of a test (i.e. ping), it helps to post the exact command you typed and the responce... verbatim.