>Message: 6
>From: "Eric Potvin" <eric.potvin@thursday.qc.ca>
>To: <psyche-list@redhat.com>
>Subject: internet connection
>Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:00:12 -0500
>Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com
>I use a Linksys Router to connect to the internet. The router is the
>DHCP for it's little network. The DHCP works because I see the Linux
>box eth0 card's MAC address in the router DHCP table. And the Linux
box >has the ip assigned to it. All seems good there.
Eric:
We have a Linksys BEFSR41 Router/Switch connected to our external Cable
Modem. We have 4 boxes (3 dual boot Win / Psyche and 1 Psyche box)
connected to it. When I installed Psyche on them, as with previous
versions of Red Hat Linux, I selected use DHCP or something like that,
to set up the networking and to start the NIC when booting. After the
first boot, they were all up on our LAN and we could surf the web,
immediately.
>Using the terminal window I can ping the router and the other Windows
>box on the network. I am unable to ping addresses outside this
network, >can't ping to the internet(either ip or www address)
I just tried the "ping" command on this Psyche box, to ping both of our
web sites (on Apache servers in the USA), via their URL's. The DNS
server at our local ISP resolved their IP addresses and the ping command
worked, without any problem.
>What settings should I check to solve this problem??
I'd run the Red Hat Network Configuration Tool ("Neat" ?) and look at
all of the settings. Use the automatic settings to get DHCP, etc. Also,
use the web based configuration for your Linksys unit and look at the
settings there. Be sure it is set to serve DHCP to the number of boxes
you have connected to it. Also, check the settings for your web browser!
Also, I suggest that you configure your Linksys unit to use the MAC
address of the NIC your ISP connected to, when they installed your
Broadband service. The *first* thing our ISP did when they came out here
was to call their office with the MAC address of that NIC. Then, we had
a problem getting that NIC (a Netgear FA311) to work and I replaced it
with a Netgear FA310TX. I remember they then called their office, with
the MAC of the replacement NIC.
For security reasons, I have our Linksys unit configured not to respond
to "pings" to the IP our cable modem ISP assigns to us.
>When I was using 7.3, it connected easily, never had anything to do,
>does 8.0 do something different??
I think it is the same and that you have a setting misconfigured, either
in your Linux box or in your Linksys unit or in your web browser. This
is something we have never had a problem with, so far.
I wish I had the exact answer for your problem, but I want you to know
this should not be a problem and is fixable. GL,
Lanny in Cali, Colmbia, South America
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