Cable modem help

[Roger Beever]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 17:10, Srinivasan S 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
A lot of cable modems use 192.168.0.1 by default as the gateway and web
access address for any set up so you may actually have the address in
use twice without realising..
Either way find out what the address is and try setting the default
gateway and DNS to point to that address.
Regards Roger