@Home not working

[Guyren G Howe <guyren@geocities.com>]

I'd be grateful for some advice about why I can't get a basic TCP network
running on this *&^%&$%&^ thing.

I have a Debian 2.1/Corel box. It has two tulip Ether cards, which work fine
on my local LAN. (2 cards because I want to set up NAT, but I figured I'd
get basic internet connection working first).

The settings I use on my Mac and PC that work fine on @Home are:

address: 24.8.xx.yy (I'm substituting letters for part of my address)
netmask: 255.255.255.128
gateway: 24.8.xx.129

...and I have a bunch of domain servers and such.

I set this up with ifconfig. To simplify things, I've done ifconfig eth1
down, so I just have loopback and eth0 addresses:

...
eth0     inetaddr:24.8.xx.yy Bcast: 24.8.xx.255 Mask:255.255.255.128
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
           RX packets:81 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:356 errors:209 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier: 418
           Collisions:0
           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000

And route -n says:

Destination Gateway             Genmask             Flags   Metric  Ref Use
Iface
0.0.0.0         24.8.xx.129    255.255.255.128  UG       0          0   0
eth0
24.8.xx.128 0.0.0.0            255.255.255.128  U         0          0   0
eth0

When I do dmesg, I get:

...
eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000
...

I can't see anything else there that looks like the 209 errors that ifconfig
is telling me about.

This shouldn't be so difficult! I've done all this stuff over and over with
minor permutations, eg the route table in the opposite order, but I can
never get anywhere.

When I try to ping the gateway, ping 24.8.xx.129, I get nothing back.

Heelp!

Guyren G Howe