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<pre class="western" style="text-align: left; widows: 0; orphans: 0;" lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000">> Since I suspect that Virgin always uses dynamic addresses, if you select<br>
> Dynamic IP address, Virgin will automatically supply your dynamic IP and the DNS<br>
> server addresses.<br>
> <br>
> If you've got a static address, you must input your static address and<br>
> at least one DNS server.<br>
> <br>
> I think the DHCP server setting is a red-herring since your ipconfig address is<br>
> in the default range offered by the DI-624. i reckon that you can<br>
> safely re-enable the DHCP server option.<br>
> <br>
> As I said, I am lucky to have no experience of Virgin, but I suspect that<br>
> you might have to tick the PPPoE box. If I'm wrong I'm sure that all the<br>
> dedicated Virginistas on the list will correct me ;-) <br>
</font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">I have switched from using Dynamic IP address to Dynamic PPPoE but still not able to online with the wireless router.</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
> It seems that you still have an ip despite turning dhcp off, but sadly not<br>
> the one gained via dhcp from the cable router. What is your ip, dns<br>
> server and default gateway when plugged in wired? (the<br>
> ifconfig/netstat/cat commands). </span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">ifconfig
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:f0:71:c3:41
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">inet addr:86.1.111.198 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">inet6 addr: fe80::200:f0ff:fe71:c341/64 Scope:Link
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">RX packets:676 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">TX packets:696 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">RX bytes:484133 (484.1 KB) TX bytes:146179 (146.1 KB)
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">Interrupt:10
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:35:1e:de:f8
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">inet6 addr: fe80::20e:35ff:fe1e:def8/64 Scope:Link
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">RX packets:16244 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">TX packets:1123 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:672 (672.0 B)
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">Interrupt:5 Base address:0x2000 Memory:d0002000-d0002fff
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">netstat -nr
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">Kernel IP routing table
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">86.1.108.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 pan0
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">0.0.0.0 86.1.108.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 pan0
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">cat /etc/resolv.conf
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">nameserver 194.168.4.100
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">nameserver 194.168.8.100
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">traceroute -n 80.87.128.36
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">traceroute to 80.87.128.36 (80.87.128.36), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">1 * * *
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">2 81.100.0.61 64.044 ms * *
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">3 * * *
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">4 * * *
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">5 * * *
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">6 * 212.43.163.89 42.732 ms 55.173 ms
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">7 213.152.245.49 55.135 ms 65.932 ms 50.260 ms
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">8 * * *
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"> <span lang="en-GB">9 213.152.252.220 61.903 ms 61.471 ms 61.732 ms
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">10 80.87.128.36 65.199 ms 65.338 ms 64.843 ms
</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">It should be possible in wicd to<br>
> hardwire those and then the use of wifi via the wifi router is just to<br>
> bridge to the cable router network. This possibly needs further<br>
> settings on the wifi router to basically turn everything off except<br>
> being a wifi device, it definitely doesn't need to make use of its WAN<br>
> interface for example.<br>
> <br>
> Something else to consider is that technically the wifi router could<br>
> work duplicating the actions of the cable router with dhcp, nat, dns,<br>
> etc. But as we see from the traceroute -n 80.87.128.36 nothing is<br>
> passing by the router. I wonder if the cable to it is okay, can you use<br>
> that one for your wired test with the laptop direct to the cable router?<br>
> Also have you given any IP/dhcp details to the wifi router for its use<br>
> of the cable router's connection?<br>
> </span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">The MAC address is 00 11 95 08 1f 0d </span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">primary DNS address is 0.0.0.0</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">secondary DNS address is 0.0.0.0</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">MTU is 1500</span></font>
<font color="#000000"><span lang="en-GB">Lucy</span></font>
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