[olug] cox at home setup

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> The cox at home guy dropped the cable modem off this morning and I'm having
> trouble connecting.  The documentation they gave me is for setting up under
> windows with dhcp.  I'm using redhat 6.2.  Anyway I have a firewall with
> eth0 to my local network and eth1 to the outside.  The hardware is working.
> I've set eth1 with my static ip (xx.xxx.xxx.xxx) and a netmask of 255.0.0.0
> the broadcast is set at 24.255.255.255.
> 
> I went into netconf and selected "other routes to networks" and added
> 24.178.140.0  under "network" (that number wasn't given to me, I'm just
> guessing from the gateway address)  Under "netmask"  I have 255.255.255.0
> and the "gateway" is 24.178.140.1

You don't need to add the route for 24.178.140.0 - the kernel does that
for you.

Ignore netconf and do things the old fashioned way.  Try these commands in
sequence as root:

/sbin/ifconfig eth1 down
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 <your ip number> netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 24.178.140.255
/sbin/route add default gw 24.178.140.1 dev eth1

> I have the correct DNS server ip address added.  Anyone know what I'm doing
> wrong here?  When I try to ping outside I get "Network is unreachable."  I
> can ping my static IP successfully.

An easier solution would be to just use DHCP on eth1 :)  You get an
essentially static IP number anyway.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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