[GLLUG] Comcast issue

[Michael Cox]

You don't mention your Linux distro. Some distros offer a GUI to set up
your network, SuSE does via the YAST program. It might be useful
information for someone to help you more specifically. I mention this
because the SuSE distro actually expects you to use their GUI, and the
configuration might need some extra steps if you change files manually.

If you are new, you probably should not be using a NIS Domain. The
"gateway" is in etc/sysconfig/routes, your gateway should equal my
gateway if you have a router. You don't say what your local network
looks like. If you are not using a router, my message won't be of much
help, other than to suggest that you do get a router since you have a
direct connection to the Internet.

You should have removed all the proxy information from your systems. The
Comcast proxy is to authenticate your account only, it is not needed to
use your connection. In fact, your connection probably won't work with
the proxy info entered.

My /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 file contents:

BOOTPROTO='static'
BROADCAST='192.168.1.255'
IPADDR='192.168.1.115'
MTU=''
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
NETWORK='192.168.1.0'
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='gZD2._iJPxW1IB2C'
WIRELESS='no'

My /etc/sysconfig/network/routes file contents:
192.168.1.1

My /etc/resolv.conf file contents:
nameserver 63.240.76.4
nameserver 204.127.198.4
search local

Good luck,

Michael



On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 09:41, Mike Bhaumik wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Thank you all for your valuable suggestions.                           
>                        
> Yesterday I could finally connect to internet from Linux. Your
> suggestions came very handy and these 2 websites were informative too.
> But I'm just halfway there.                         
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> http://www.geocities.com/torus2000/Comcast_linux_setup.html            
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> http://www.tiger-marmalade.com/~james/journal.php?cms=568              
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> What I did was I got the connection working from Windows XP. Then Linux
> could recognize it. I had to visit 12.242.20.9 (address of
> sas.r5.attbi.com) from mozilla to confirm my connection to COMCAST. Then
> a reboot ...                                                            
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> Good news :                                                            
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> I can ping,ftp my server (the one from my hosting provider) form linux
> very fast and easy. The ping response comes back in less than 50
> milliseconds. So it must be a stable connection. I can ping other
> serevrs too with their IP address showing a good response time.         
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> Bad news :                                                             
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> When I try to go to www.cnn.com (or any other website) it can't resolve
> the hostname and times out. I'm using mozilla.  The file
> /etc/resolv.conf shows search is comcast.net and shows 2 other IP
> addresses for DNS.                                                      
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> 
> I noticed that my /etc/sysconfing/network file does not contain lines
> about GATEWAY, GATEWAYDEV, NISDOMAIN.                                   
>                                                
> May I get some help here too; I'm a novice, getting started in Linux so
> please bear with me.   
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> Again thank you all, specially to Mark Tarquini, Marshal Newrock,
> Daniel Bennett, Benjamin Minshall, C. Ulrich, Bill Bartilson, Mike Neir,
> Jason Watson, Scott Henry Harrison, Jeffrey Utter and Dylan M.          
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> Warm Regards
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