[ale] ethernet problems

[Jeff Hubbs]

Oh, and spell the return address right too.

Anyway, on to your problem:  Look in /etc/resolv.conf and make certain
you've got valid DNS addresses in these.  DirecTV (which I am no fan of
at all) may or may not set those addresses via DHCP.  

- Jeff

On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 11:28, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> OK, first things first:  lose the "tuxismyhero" thing on the e-mail
> address because on a mailing list no one is going to want to do this
> every time you're an addressee. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 10:49, tuxismyhero-grimmke at directvinternt.com
> wrote:
> > Hi everybody-
> > 
> > Happy memorial day.
> > 
> > I am having some problems with my dsl and any help
> > would be appreciated.
> > 
> > My box can not seem to resolve addresses beyond my dsl
> > gateway.  I can ping the gateway and open the gateway
> > "page" which shows me all my addresses and indicates
> > that the connection is up.
> > 
> > I had a connection yesterday morning.  However, the
> > power went out and when it came back I could not
> > resolve the outside world. 
> > 
> > The only thing I can think of that messed with ethernet
> > is that I had installed pmfirewall on saturday while
> > trying to get my internal lan to work (more on that in
> > another email when I get dsl back and don't have to use
> > dialup).  
> > 
> > I uninstalled the firewall (with the intention of using
> > the settings built into the distribution), still no go.
> >  
> > 
> > The distro I am running is Redhat 7.3.  I have directv
> > dsl, which is plain old ethernet between the gateway
> > and computer, static ip.  I have set up the gateway to
> > my board's built in LAN (eth1).  I used the redhat gui
> > based netwok setup program to configure the network.
> > The dns servers seem to be listed properly in
> > etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf
> > 
> > Could the firewall have put something in the config
> > files that is filtering all packets? (just a WAG) 
> > 
> > I know that I am very green, and in way over my head. 
> > I am enjoying the learning process, but my wife is not
> > thrilled that broadband is down.
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Andrew Grimmke
> > to respond to the above address remove everything to 
> > the left of "grimmke" 
> > 
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