[dundee] routing woes

[Conor]

keir you really should just get a mac


On Saturday, February 21, 2004, at 07:03 PM, Keir Lawson wrote:

>
>> Perhaps in my previous mail I had got the adsl modem/router and 
>> linysys
>> wireless router mixed up.
>>
>> Perhaps a more detailed explanation of how everything is wired (or 
>> not)
>> up would be useful....
>>
>> Although the other thing which springs to mind, is that you are using 
>> a
>> 192.168.0.x network with a netmask of 255.255.255.0 which means that
>> 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1 are on different networks.
>>
>> To have your machine talk to 192.168.1.1 can be accomplished in a 
>> number
>> of ways. The simplest probably is to give your machines eth0 another 
>> IP
>> address say 192.168.1.10, this can be accomplished by simple doing a
>> 	
>> 	ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.10 up
>>
>> this should let you talk to the linksys on 192.168.1.1
>>
>>
>> Any more problems and it's probably best to go over interactively on
>> irc.
>
> sorry for taking a while to try out your suggestions, ive been busy
> (school)
>
> firstly, the reason i am not rying to resolve this on IRC is because i
> have the feeling this could take a while (ive being trying to work it
> out my self for a month on and off), although id love to be proved
> wrong, and also that as i have cancled dialup and only have one 
> ethernet
> port i cannot be using the router and the internet untill i get it 
> setup
> so i would have to continually disconnect and reconnect to IRC, so i
> might as well send email.
>
> right, ive managed to get in to my router, just restarted it and it
> worked so now i can get into its configuration. currently i have set 
> its
> address to 192.168.0.2 rather than 192.168.1.1 so its on the same
> netwrok as me.  i have attached screenshots of parts of the router's
> config screens and am wondering how i should set the options to enable
> me to access the modem and hence the internet.
>
> sidetracking a it: i managed to get samba working! so now my computers
> can share files etc wirelessly! (seems small, means a whole lot to me
> after 2 months of nothing)
>
> keir
>
> ps thanks for your help so far
>
> -- 
>
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>
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