Did you check your default gateway was set to 192.168.1.1? On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:00:23 -0400, elefino wrote
Hello list.
I don't know how much info is "enough" (versus too much, or not enough).
To make my current SuSE box serve a few things on my little home network (files and mail) I was advised to set the SuSE box up with a static address, rather than whatever my LinkSys WRT54G router hands out via dhcp.
I use YaST Control Center > Network Devices > Network Card dialog to edit the entry for "AOPEN RTL-8139/8139C/8139CC+ DHCP" to set a static address, instead of looking for a dhcp handout.
When I save the changes, and YaST updates whatever it updates, I am immediately unable to reach the internet. Apparently, I can still reach the configuration HTTP server inside the LinkSys, but nothing beyond it.
When I edit the Network Card entry (in this SuSE box) back to dhcp, then as soon as I save, I immediately regain browser and e-mail access.
WHY? Would this be the SuSE box refusing to play with the LinkSys, or would it be the LinkSys, pissed off that the SuSE box no longer wants to use the dhcp addresses that the LinkSys doles out?
On the LinkSys, the mask is 255.255.255.0. The LinkSys box itself is at 192.168.1.1. I've tried giving this SuSE box static addresses all up and down the 192.168.1.10-though-253 range (not every possible address in the space, but a selection , widely scattered in that space) with the same result every time. If the SuSE box is not using a dynamically assigned address, then it's not getting access to the internet.
I have tried switching the LinkSys' dhcp server off. It still does not wish to recognize an attached computer that has the effrontery to specify its own address.
Browsing and mail work fine when I let the LinkSys dhcp specify everybody's address. What am I overlooking?
See these bruises on my forehead? That's from slapping myself for not recognizing stupidly-obvious things. There'll be another, fresh bruise when somebody points out the blindingly obvious thing that I'm overlooking here. But please don't let that stop you. :-)
SUMMARY I want to assign static addresses to at least one (this PC that I'm writing from) computer on my network, and have my LinkSys router accept that address and not ignore it. What needs to be done here? Both ends.
Thank you,
Kevin
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