getting broadband working on my new AMD64 box....

["Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000@hotmail.com>]

Dear Debianists,

I have now installed Etch AMD64 RC1 successfully on my new AMD64 box.  The 
only problem I have is that the internet connection isn't working.

My old box is an AMD Duron 1200 Mhz 32 bit machine which is running Etch 
i386.  The internet connection works fine on it.

I use NTL broadband cable.

I have used the old box to help me get information about my internet 
connection.

If you look in the network tools window you get information for eth0

IP address.

It is 86.22.11.90  and this is NTL.

I checked with the whoami tool.

I also looked in the network configuration box in the network admin icon.  I 
found that the DNS server numbers for NTL are 194.168.4.100 and 
194.168.8.100.

I also ran ifconfig as follows:

mikef@spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:44:33:AD:C3
         inet addr:86.22.11.90  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:576  Metric:1
         RX packets:5190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:4341 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:2 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:2418361 (2.3 MiB)  TX bytes:602343 (588.2 KiB)
         Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc800

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:E6:0C:AE:D4
         UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
         Interrupt:5 Base address:0xcc00

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
         inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
         RX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:6560 (6.4 KiB)  TX bytes:6560 (6.4 KiB)

My question is: what is the best use of this information when I disconnect 
the old box and plug in the new one to help it hook up to NTL?

I could just put the DNS numbers in the network admin window for example.

Suggestions welcome.

Regards

Michael Fothergill

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