I have an account with SBC Yahoo DSL with 5 static IPs and am trying to setup a Linux server with Fedora Core 2. I have a 2 wire home portal and a Linksys 5 port hub. My connection works fine if I use DHCP and let the router supply the IPs. But, when I try to set up a static IP I get nowhere.

I am using the following to try to get setup:

static ip: x.x.46.33
gateway: x.x.46.38 <- anyone know if this is correct? this is what they told me to use.
netmask: 255.255.255.0

primary dns and secondary dns are ok.

When I have the linux box set with these parameters I can't even ping the 2wire home portal at 172.16.0.1 but if it's set to dhcp I have no problem pinging it or getting into the config from a webbrowser.

Anyone have any suggestions? I am at a loss.

Tnx.

while using dhcp, type route on your fc2 box. the 4th (or so) line should be your default gateway. also, verify that subnet mask - which should be on the 1st line when you type route.

you can also use ifconfig and get the parameters ip, netmask, broadcast while in dhcp to verify the info is proper.

Thanks,

Here are the results of the route & ifconfig commands... this is while using dhcp...

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
172.16.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default homeportal.gate 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0


eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:3E:73:A1
inet addr:172.16.1.35 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:29ff:fe3e:73a1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2087 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1747392 (1.6 Mb) TX bytes:159725 (155.9 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd800

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:4537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4537 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2711690 (2.5 Mb) TX bytes:2711690 (2.5 Mb)

Do I need to assign one of my static IPs to my 2wire homeportal? When I check while using dhcp, my actual ip address shows the same thing they told me that my gateway is... the x.x.46.38 number.

Changed my netmask to 255.255.0.0 but still no go....