[Leaplist] Brighthouse cable hook up

[Hank Lambert]

This machine is running Linux? I notice the IP address falls within the
Microsoft APIPA address range, 169.254.0.1 - 169.254.255.254.

-----Original Message-----
From: leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org [mailto:leaplist-bounces at leap-cf.org] On
Behalf Of patrick
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 9:12 PM
To: This is the Leap Main List
Subject: Re: [Leaplist] Brighthouse cable hook up

Danny W. Burdick wrote:
> 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 ? 


Yes, it brings back, (relayed to me tonight, via telephone from Dianna:

> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>           inet addr:169.254.119.15  Bcast:169.254.0.0  Mask:255.255.0.0

Rest is unknown... Will be seeing it tomorrow evening...

>           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
> 169.254.119.15    *               255.255.0.0   U     0      0        0
eth0
> default         169.254.119.15     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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