I'm sitting at my friend's house, using his wireless through comcast.
He says that the Toshiba cable modem isn't working because a new patch
MS sent out for windows is causing problems with it.  My friend bought a
Linksys cable modem, so he's having no problems, but it sounds like
those with the Toshiba modem can't get on.  Go to
microsoft.com/technet/default.asp he says.
 
(He didn't realize you guys aren't using Windows)
 
Could it be the worm going around, is knocking comcast offline in some
areas, or what?  I'd say call support.

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Subject: [TCLUG] Comcast and Redhat 9


I'm having way to much fun. 
 
RCA Comcast modem: works fine. 
I can ping myself, and I can ping other ethernet addresses on the
comcast network. 
 
ifconfig -a shows eth0 is up, it has an assigned IP address from
comcast. 
 
but....
 
Mozilla will not get to the internet. I set up the security using
"medium" security as default. I have some experience with cable modem in
Boulder, CO, where I had to force feed the network with pump -i eth0 -h
hostname (the hostname assigned by @home). 
I'm failing miserably at this point. 
 
ifup eth0 gives errors
 
Determining IP information for eth0...iptables: No chain/target/match by
that name done.
 
iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?)
iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
 
 
NOTE: The system I built is for my parents. I'm attempting to turn them
into a home linux users. They are upgrading from webtv to a Linux home
system. 
Because the system resides at my parents, and I'm running out of time on
this visit, I may not be able to immediately anything for a couple of
weeks (upon my next return trip). However, I'm bound and determined to
keep them off windows. 
 
Any help, or anyone with experiencing RedHat 9 kernel 2.4.20-6 and
comcast would be greatly appreciated. 
 
Another note: Comcast was not much help with providing dns/gateway/ip
address information for configuring the system. The install guy didn't
have any of that information so I had to connect with a windows laptop
to run winipcf to get some information. 
 
Thanks in anticipation, 
 
AlaskaJon

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