[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Cable modem problems

[Jeff Bohning]

All makes perfect sense but I'm not sure how to get the SMC POS card they
gave me from @Home to be recognized... last install was RH 5.2 though so i'm
going to see if I can find a distro of RH 6.1 at least... Know anyone having
luck/trouble with SMC NIC's?

Jeff Bohning

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Stokes" <david_stokes at yahoo.com>
To: <casey3771 at home.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 8:48 AM
Subject: Cable modem problems


> Hi,
>
> I saw your plea that was on the NTLUG discuss list.
>
> I have a cable modem with Linux boxes attached. Here is the 10,000 foot
> view.  The first trick is to make sure you ethernet card is working --
> Many have to be initialized before they will work.  Then see if you can
> can ping your gateway box; If your machine can send packets to the next
> nearest upstream box you are in good shape.  Then see if you can ping
> the nameservers  and try something like www.ibm.com or another big
> site.
>
> 1.  Ping your IP  'ping 24.24.24.99'  -> use the numbers @home supplies
> for your setup.
> if that doesn't work, it may be the card or the setup.
> 2. Ping your gateway 'ping 24.24.24.23'
> If that doesn't work, call tech support and have them try to hit it
> from the other side.  my cable modem worked for a week and then the
> gateway went bad -> service had to fix that.
> 3. Ping the nameservers 'ping 24.22.1.22'.  If this doesn't work the
> gateway doe not hook into the bigger @home network.
> 4. Ping a popular site like yahoo.  if this doesn;t work, @home has the
> problem.
>
>
> If this is clear as mud, e-mail me back.
>
> Dave Stokes
>
>
>
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>
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