Cable modem help

[Mark Haney]

Setup to automatically obtain DNS if you are using DHCP.  Otherwise things 
tend to get squirrelly.  I have my FC1 and FC2test1 running on my cable 
modem at home just fine.

On 5 Mar 2004 17:10:50 -0000, Srinivasan S <ssrini at rediffmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I run Fedora Core 1 (on a dual boot with Win 98) ..
>
> Recently I attached a cable modem to the m/c and set it up as below :
>
> Settings on eth0: (local n/w)
> eth0 is connected to the local network and runs Samba and DHCPD (on eth0 
> only).  Set to a static IP of 192.168.1.1
>
> Settings on eth1 : (Motorola 5100 Surfboard cable modem)
> Automatically obtain IP address settings with dhcp
> DHCP Settings : Hostname is empty and Automatically obtain DNS is 
> unchecked and Hardware is bound to the proper MAC address
>
> When I try to activate the eth1 interface it fails.  An ifconfig on eth1 
> returns the following output :
>
> [root at localhost root]# ifconfig eth1
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:BA:08:43:4C
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:65356 (63.8 Kb)  TX bytes:3420 (3.3 Kb)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc400
>
> << The same cable connection on Win98 works without any hitches and I 
> get connected>>
>
> I want to use my Fedora box with the net and hence need help urgently
>
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Srini
>



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