Topic: LAN works great, Interenet connection test fails..

[Flo]

Hello.  I've setup my e-smith box with 2 3com nics.  Ome connects to my aDSL and the other to the hub.  A win98 client machine connects to the hub also.  While all the settings seem right on the e-smith machine, my aDSL LED keeps flashing.  Also the internet connection test keeps failing.  I tried swapping the eth's but still no positive results.  LAN works fine as i can access www\e-smith-manager from the client machine.

When running ifconfig on e-smith, eth0 has the ip: 192.168.196.255.  There is no IP showing for eth1.  Also tried ifconfig eth1 down/up.  No positive results.

Would someone please help?

Thank you in advance

[Ruusvuu]

Just a guess:  Do you have a static IP and maybe set it up to receive DHCP and your provider doesn't do DHCP?

Are the cards identical and do they have the same drivers installed?

[Flo]

I don't have a static IP and my provider does DHCP...  Cards are identical, therefore they do have the same drivers...any ideas what is wrong?

[Ruusvuu]

Are the cards new?
Even still, one might be bad, unless you've tested them both.

Try this anyway:

Run the configuration again, swap the cards then swap cables and see if you have outside connectivity and not local - if this is the case, I would say you have a bad card.

Good luck!

[BYte]

Hi


We are running 2 3com nics and they work fine i would suggest you have a look at the Gateway make that what ever the ip number is for your ADSL thats where we went wrong before.


Best of Luck


BYte

[DArrel]

If worse comes to worse, I would try a differnt brand of NIC. I had a similar problem and swaped one of the cards for a kingston. after that it worked fine.

                                                           good luck

[sander]

Flo wrote:
>
> When running ifconfig on e-smith, eth0 has the ip:
> 192.168.196.255.  There is no IP showing for eth1.  Also
> tried ifconfig eth1 down/up.  No positive results.
>
why do you have local ip with the ending of 255? set it to something lower.
may-be it is confusing the server?
what shows ifconfig eth1 ?

maybe they have the same recources?
try changing the location of eth1 nic.

if you changed anything from the console did you ran a console-save?

hope this helps

sander

[ChuckL]

Some ADSL providers use the network card's internal address as the hostname for DHCP.  Did you set up your ADSL connection w/your linux box?  If you didn't, then the ADSL provider is expecting a connection w/the network card used when you originally set up the DSL modem.   If you originaly set up w/Windows (few ISP's support Linux) then remove the network card from the Windows box and use it instead in the Linux box as the connection to the ADSL modem.

[Graham]

I can support this. Blue Yonder in the UK register the MAC address of the network card with their service.

If you aint registered your NIC MAC then you never get proper IP allocation and it wont work !

[Randy]

You shouldn't have a broadcast 255 at the last octet.  Anyway, here is what you should do.
1.  Get the settings that used to connect you to the DSL line (winipcfg on the Win98 box).
2.  Plug those settings into the public interface of the Mitel box. (you need the IP, the gateway, and your DNS server info).
3.  Set a static internal address of 192.168.1.1 for the private interface.
4. Setup eSmith to be a DHCP server and setup Win98 client to use DHCP
  (or alternative step 4)
4. Setup static IP in Win98 to 192.168.1.2, Gateway 192.168.1.1 and DNS settings.