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Re: broadband question



Hal Vaughan wrote:

On Sunday 08 May 2005 12:55 pm, Peter Klauer wrote:
I have tried many ways to configure for a connection to my Comcast
Broadband service to no avail.

ipconfig keeps giving me this:
dummy0   Link encap:Ethernet   HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
              inet addr:192.168.1.10  bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets689 errors:0 dropped:O overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)   TX bytesL13839 (59.8 KiB)

lo            Link encap:Local Loopback
             inet DDR:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
             UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
             RX packets:225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
             TX packets:225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
             RX bytes:13839 (13.5 KiB)   TX bytes:13839 (13.5 KiB)

slo          Link encap:Serial Line IP
            inet addr:192;168.0.1  P-t-P:192.168.0.2  Mask:255.255.255.255
            UP POINTTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
            TX packets689 errors:0 dropped:O overruns:0 carrier:0
            collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)   TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

This means nothing to me. Any help?
Peter

Is the first NIC a fake (and therefore called dummy)? Both dummy0 and sl0 have addresses in a local network (192.168.0.x). Your NIC that connects to your cable modem needs to use DHCP. Are you using straight Debian, or a Debian based system (like Mepis, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Kanotix, etc.)? Some have a config manager that makes it easy to set a NIC to DHCP. Unless the NIC on the Internet side can get its address from Comcast, it won't be able to connect to the Internet.

Also, do you have your nameservers set for the Comcast DNS?

Hal

I am using a new distro of  Debian GNU/Linux i386 "Woody", I'm new to Debian
and Linux. In the distro install setup I messed up and cannot get back into it, can I
do that with console?
Peter



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