Configuring my broadband connection

[neomorph]

I have this broadband internet connection that works in such a way that there is a direct connection to my ethernet card...I gave the ip address and DNS and gateway and subnet mask...but i cant get on to the internet when i use the broadband client given by my ISP...the same connection works very well in my Knoppix v3.6...Is there a separate n/w card config tool in mandrake like in linux? cos i cant figure out if mine is a dsl, or lan connection...or any other terminology..

[fred_the_fish]

Cable or normal broadband? --> u say it uses the NIC, so I'm assuming its cable? if it is, it should just be a case of setting the NIC to DHCP?

[neomorph]

Its a normal broadband connection..no modem...directly connected to my ethernet card

[arctic]

hi neomorph and welcome aboard :D

 

i guess this is your first mandrake box. you have to activate zour eth0 card in order to get full broadband access. open a console and log in as root (type su and password) then type ifup eth0. after this check your settings with 'ifconfig eth0'. you should see now an ip adress that zou are connected to. if not, try 'ping 216.239.59.99' in case you don't get a result, check if your /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file has a line saying dhcp. if yes, change that to static (or vice versa).

 

tell us how you progress.

[neomorph]

I did what u said arctic...but this is what i got...i get a 100% data loss when i am receiving data

also the ifcfg-eth0 file had static option only

 

[root@localhost root]# ifup eth0

[root@localhost root]# ifconfig eth0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2F:1F:44:E9

inet addr:10.11.48.134 Bcast:10.11.48.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:1020 (1020.0 B) TX bytes:168 (168.0 B)

Interrupt:23 Base address:0xe800

 

[root@localhost root]# ping 216.239.59.99

PING 216.239.59.99 (216.239.59.99) 56(84) bytes of data.

 

^[

 

--- 216.239.59.99 ping statistics ---

11 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 9998ms

 

[root@localhost root]# ping 216.239.59.99

PING 216.239.59.99 (216.239.59.99) 56(84) bytes of data.

 

--- 216.239.59.99 ping statistics ---

6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4998ms

 

[root@localhost root]# ping 216.239.59.99

PING 216.239.59.99 (216.239.59.99) 56(84) bytes of data.

 

--- 216.239.59.99 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 999ms

[arctic]

please post the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. :)

[neomorph]

Here is the content of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

I am not sure what the NETWORK refers to....does it mean the DNS?

Cos my DNS is not listed in the file nor is my gateway.

 

 

[root@localhost network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0

BOOTPROTO=static

IPADDR=10.11.48.134

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

NETWORK=10.11.48.0

BROADCAST=10.11.48.255

ONBOOT=no

MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes

Edited October 15, 2004 by neomorph

[arctic]

try changing "onboot=no" to "onboot=yes"

 

the dns-data is stored in your /etc/resolv.conf file. but as long as you do not get packages back it should not be the cause of your trouble. the dns-files are only important for decocing e.g. http://216.239.59.99 as www.google.com. so, if you get net access but no website, the dns could be the troublemaker. but in your case, no packets come back. this means that somehow your network-card is not properly set up, or (what seems most logical for me) the firewall is the troublemaker.

 

if you don't get a net access with omboot=yes, please type as root in a console

 

route -n

 

iptables -nvL

 

iptables -nvL -t nat

 

and post the results here.

 

good luck

[neomorph]

Thanks a lot arctic... Changing onboot=no to onboot=yes solved the problem...This is why Linux rules...