Question

[Chris Wong]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kevin wrote:

> I tried George Toft's image, LRP 2.9.4, Freesco and right now I'm
> trying to use Floppyfw.  I tried coyote about a month ago, but it
> didn't detect my intel cards.

Hmm... Odd, it should... do you have the correct module parameters? I'm a
bit rusty on the LRP stuff tho'... They were at a good price point until
Linksys came out their their routers.

> All these routers detect my 3c509 cards.
> 
> -Freesco hangs when it reaches the "waiting for DHCPOFFER on eth0.  I
> installed the dhcpcd in the correct folder.

Y'know what's scary... I haven't heard of floppyfw and freesco. heh.

> -GT's/LRP 2.9.4 has one error message: (SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not
> supported by device)  I think this is the message I get, I'm not sure
> if it's eth0 or eth1.  I can ifconfig and get back eth0, eth1 & lo.  
> But I cannot ping anything.  When I ping 192.168.1.1 and ping
> www.cdrom.com I get -1, 100% packet loss.

Looks like the routing is messed up. If you get an address and it doesn't
work... take a look at the route table (route -n)

> -Floppyfw, when I try the disk on my work computer it picks up
> 192.168.1.64. But at home in my router box it get nothing.  ifconfig
> returns etho, eth1 & lo.  I can ping 192.168.1.1 and get back 0%
> packet loss, but I cannot get any IP on the outside world.

Out of curisosity.. what version of the Kernel do these floppy
distributions run? Is it a 2.2 or a 2.0?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Wong" <wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu>
> To: "Linux Users Anonymous" <luau at luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:50 AM
> Subject: [luau] Re: Question
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Kevin wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to get a linux router to start and I'm having some
> > > problems.  I'm trying to get the dhcpcd to run.  I wanted to know if
> > > anyone has the correct dns nameserver for roadrunner?
> >
> > if you can't get dhcpcd running then getting a DNS nameserver isn't going
> > to help you.
> >
> > Basically, before you run dhcpcd, your NIC is not configured at all. DHCP
> > provides you with an address... without which you can't connect to the
> > network at all.. much less a DNS server.
> >
> > > I get no help from oceanic cable.  And my only link for information on

> > > this subject is from George Toft's homepage.  He has:
> >
> > No offense to any of the Oceanic guys, but Road Runner tech support (up in
> > the mainland I guess) really really really really sucks.
> >
> > I try to fix my own problems now.
> >
> > > 204.210.96.1
> > > 204.210.96.2
> >
> > That's old.
> >
> > > on his idiot image, but the page says to use:
> > >
> > > 24.25.227.32
> > > 24.25.227.34
> > > 24.25.227.36
> >
> > That probably is correct. But I haven't really checked my DNS settings in
> > many many moons.
> >
> > > I tried all these nameserver and I still cannot get a response.
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > What is the output of /var/log/messages?
> >
> > Actually, what kind of Linux system are you running?
> >
> > LRP? George Toft's image? I think I have a LRP image ... hey it runs
> > rrsmpcd. That's a bit too old.
> >
> > Oh what would i recommend now... If you're going for the floppy based
> > version.. a stock coyote linux install is pretty good.
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
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