Perplexing network Problem

[TheWart]

Okay, I hope no-one minds, but I recently posted a question on the mailing list, but it was not solved, so I now turn to the forums. Here is the extent of the correspondance, along with my current update:




On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:38:46PM -0400, Stephen Varga wrote:
> On Friday 09 August 2002 06:01 pm, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:09:59PM -0700, Kevin Crist wrote:
> > > have Earthlink DSL (DHCP), and I recently purchased an SMC 4 port
> > > Router/switch. I have PPPOE enabled on the router config, but within
> > > each computer (windows) I have networking properties set up so that they
> > > think they are on static ip's ranging from like 192.168.2.10 to
> > > 192.168.2.7 . Now I did this because I read that this is what you need
> > > to do if you want to foward certain ports for various functions and such.
> > > So in Gentoo I tried this approach, but when I came to enetering my
> > > broadcast IP, i was stuck. I enetered my 'real' ip (the outside one),
> > > but obviously if I enter this into the /etc/conf.d/net file, whenever I
> > > reconnect to earthlink, that number will have to be changed. My question
> > > is, is there a way to make it work like in Windows, or am I stuck.
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Sure. Give it a 192.168.2.x (another number that is not being used).
> >
> > Broadcast should be 192.168.0.255
>
> Actually the correct broadcast address will be 192.168.2.255

So anyway, I tried this, and all seems to be well, when I run ifconfig, I get the broadcast of 192.168.2.255 and IP of 192.168.2.4. I can ping other comps within the LAN (indeed, i am ssh'ing into the box), but I cant go on the net without going through the instructions on getting Static IP's working in the install guide. I would greatly appreciate any and all help.
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

[TheWart]

just wanted to add one more thing. In my /etc/resolv.conf, I have two lines....."nameserver 207.69.188.186" and then the same one except the 186 is 185. I got these lines from looking in my router status. It says they are the DNS servers.
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?

[pjp]

The router is providing private (192.x.x.x) IP addresses? If that is the case, you probably have to set the gateway in /etc/conf.d/net.
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[TheWart]

Thanks so much! I dont know how I missed that.
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Face it, we are all noobs.

On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?