[H-GEN] lrp and Telstra Cable

[John Ryland]

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On Friday 15 December 2000 11:33, Hilton Travis wrote:
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> I have downloaded and configured Andrew Fort's bpalogin.lrp package.
> When my lrp disk boots I get a DHCP lease from Telstra, but eth0
> (Internet NIC) then is taken down.  bpalogin is running (ps ax), and
> when I "ip link set eth0 up" the interface starts again, but I cannot
> ping through it - not even to 24.192.64.18 (my Primary DNS at
> Telstra) - "Network is unreachable".

Do other things work, just not ping, or does nothing at all work?
It's possible that the ping packets (or the packets coming back) are blocked 
by your firewall. Check the ipchain policys for this, something like 
"ipchains -L" will tell you what's being blocked and what's accepted.

Regards
John

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