[ale] ethernet problems

[Jeff Hubbs]

OK, first things first:  lose the "tuxismyhero" thing on the e-mail
address because on a mailing list no one is going to want to do this
every time you're an addressee. 



On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 10:49, tuxismyhero-grimmke at directvinternt.com
wrote:
> Hi everybody-
> 
> Happy memorial day.
> 
> I am having some problems with my dsl and any help
> would be appreciated.
> 
> My box can not seem to resolve addresses beyond my dsl
> gateway.  I can ping the gateway and open the gateway
> "page" which shows me all my addresses and indicates
> that the connection is up.
> 
> I had a connection yesterday morning.  However, the
> power went out and when it came back I could not
> resolve the outside world. 
> 
> The only thing I can think of that messed with ethernet
> is that I had installed pmfirewall on saturday while
> trying to get my internal lan to work (more on that in
> another email when I get dsl back and don't have to use
> dialup).  
> 
> I uninstalled the firewall (with the intention of using
> the settings built into the distribution), still no go.
>  
> 
> The distro I am running is Redhat 7.3.  I have directv
> dsl, which is plain old ethernet between the gateway
> and computer, static ip.  I have set up the gateway to
> my board's built in LAN (eth1).  I used the redhat gui
> based netwok setup program to configure the network.
> The dns servers seem to be listed properly in
> etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf
> 
> Could the firewall have put something in the config
> files that is filtering all packets? (just a WAG) 
> 
> I know that I am very green, and in way over my head. 
> I am enjoying the learning process, but my wife is not
> thrilled that broadband is down.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Grimmke
> to respond to the above address remove everything to 
> the left of "grimmke" 
> 
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