[SunHELP] My last straw in getting Solaris 8 on the Internet.

[Beauford]

Found the problem. It seems the headend in my segment for @Home was
caching my NIC MAC address from my Linux box, so when I put Solaris on
with a different NIC, it wouldn't work. Once I got them to flush the
cache, it worked fine.

Thanks for the input. 

-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of J P
Sent: August 6, 2001 8:42 AM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] My last straw in getting Solaris 8 on the
Internet.


I would snoop the interface to verify the card is
seeing network traffic, you can get teh interface name
by: netstat -i, then snoop -d <interface name>  If it
getting traffic, then I would check your routes, make
sure you have a default to get out on.  Try doing an
arp -a and see if your box is talking to anyone.  Can
you ping anything?  As in, can you ping IPs, but not
hostnames, is DNS (if it's being used) setup?  Do you
have to go through a proxy, have you put that info in
the browser (I'm assuming Netscape here).  Other than
that, if this is a static IP, might try calling the
ISP to verify their end is good to go....  
For what it's worth...
Peer

--- Beauford <beauford at crosswinds.net> wrote:
> I installed Solaris 8 last week and have been though
> many, many FAQ's
> and DOC's as well as several newsgroups trying to
> find out why I can't
> connect to the Internet, and from the information I
> have been able to
> gather, nothing is wrong - I should be connected. I
> have an X86 box
> connected to @Home through a Terayon modem. I also
> have a Linux box that
> works fine when connected to the same Terayon modem.
> I have ran netstat
> -rn and also ifconfig on both machines and get the
> same info on both -
> so it appears that the Solaris box is getting the
> proper network
> information, I just can't get to the Internet (note
> that I am set up
> statically). There is nothing weird about my setup -
> it just goes from
> the modem to the NIC (which is one that is on the HW compatibility
> list). The only thing I haven't done is install any
> of the patches -
> simply because I can't connect to be able to get
> them, however, I don't
> know if this would make any difference anyway. I
> know this isn't a lot
> of info, but any help is appreciated. It isn't much
> use if I can't get
> it to connect to the Internet.
> 
> Thanks, Beauford
> 
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