[CLUE-Tech] DSL setup question

[Jeffery Cann]

On Saturday 15 June 2002 11:22 pm, Jeff Hill wrote:
>     I'm trying to set up my linux box to use my earthlink dsl
> connection.  The connection goes from the wall to a router to a switch
> then one line goes to my windows box and one line goes to my linux box.
>  I'm using SuSE 7.3 and I can ping the router, but can't seem to connect
> to the internet.  I've read some man pages and HowTo's on networking,
> but I'm still kinda lost.  Does anyone have any pointers on what I might
> be screwing up?

Is the router supplying dhcp client IPs for your local network?  If yes, have 
you set up the linux box to query the dhcp server (in this case running on 
your router)?  This will configure the network card on the linux box 
automatically and then things should work.

If you don't know the answer to this question, try this command and post the 
output back to the list:

$ /sbin/ifconfig

Also, be sure to do a '$ man ifconfig' so you can learn a bit about this 
utility,

Jeff