[Leaplist] Brighthouse cable hook up

[Danny W. Burdick]

It's  "The IP says the signal is strong and pings fine."

That has me wondering what is going on ... ???


What exactly are you saying here?

"Ifconfig" gives you back a valid ip for eth0 ?

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:A4:B3:88:94
          inet addr:192.168.1.21  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:20934 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19056 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:24411335 (23.2 MiB)  TX bytes:1810927 (1.7 MiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1000

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:163 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:163 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:21224 (20.7 KiB)  TX bytes:21224 (20.7 KiB)


"Route" gives you back a valid gateway address ?

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
default         192.168.1.8     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0


"Dig" gives you back all the servers used to get in and out ?

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>>
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45497
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       14174   IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       14174   IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; Query time: 163 msec
;; SERVER: 209.244.0.3#53(209.244.0.3)
;; WHEN: Mon Jul 23 11:04:36 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 228

And you can ping

ping www.ibm.com
PING www.ibm.com.cs186.net (129.42.56.212) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- www.ibm.com.cs186.net ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2999ms

and it resolves the url over to an ip numeric address and shows flow ....?


Only thing I have ever had a problem with in this arena would be

DNS problems ....

Try forcing dns to

209.244.0.3
209.244.0.4

and possibly forcing a static ip address



 
patrick wrote:
> Donated my Dell 4100 system to the family of 5 girls, whose older 400
> system had been resurrected enough.
>
> This unit running Mepis worked fine on my Brighthouse Cable, and DSL at
> the installfest, but, though I can see that Network is connected, the
> send light is out, while the receive light and traffic are on with many
> Mb of transfers.
>
> The BrightHouse IP assigned is the same 167.xxx.xxx.15 upon all restarts
> of the Modem and the computer.
>
> What could be configured incorrectly?  The IP says the signal is strong
> and pings fine.
>
> They have Brighthouse cable, and the modem is one with VOIP that their
> phone hooks to.
>
> After configuration, it states that the entire system should be
> rebooted, which I do with a shutdown and restart.
>
> Scratching my head...
>
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