Cable modem help

[Terry Polzin]

On Friday 05 March 2004 12:10, Srinivasan S wrote:
>  Hi
>
>  I run Fedora Core 1 (on a dual boot with Win 98) ..
>
>  Recently I attached a cable modem to the m/c and set it up as below :
>
>  Settings on eth0: (local n/w)
>  eth0 is connected to the local network and runs Samba and DHCPD (on eth0
> only).  Set to a static IP of 192.168.1.1
>
>  Settings on eth1 : (Motorola 5100 Surfboard cable modem)
>  Automatically obtain IP address settings with dhcp
>  DHCP Settings : Hostname is empty and Automatically obtain DNS is
> unchecked and Hardware is bound to the proper MAC address
>
>  When I try to activate the eth1 interface it fails.  An ifconfig on eth1
> returns the following output :
>
>  [root at localhost root]# ifconfig eth1
>  eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:BA:08:43:4C
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:65356 (63.8 Kb)  TX bytes:3420 (3.3 Kb)
>            Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc400
>
>  << The same cable connection on Win98 works without any hitches and I get
> connected>>
>
>  I want to use my Fedora box with the net and hence need help urgently
Does your cable company need the MAC address of eth1 to allow it to receive a 
dhcp address?  That may be the issue, some cable companys register MAC 
addresses and only give addresses to the ones they know about up to the 
number of machines they will allow you to connect.