[Gllug] wicd manager

[damion.yates at gmail.com]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Robert Newson wrote:

> damion.yates at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Lucy Peters wrote:
> > 
> > **It would help if others with a VM Cable router could step in and
> > comment about how these work at this point.
>
> I have a netgear (WGR614) wireless router (I bought myself from Amazon
> a while ago, not a VM supplied one[1]) that is connected to my LAN
> [switch] via one of the wired ports; I've used it in 2 configs:
> 
> The router (and gateway before) gets its IP and DNS server information
> from VM - the router has an IP of 77.x.x.x (visible from both the
> router and modem status pages).

That's what I assumed, so it IS dhcp ?
 
> My LAN points to the router for DNS and that forwards the requests it
> can't satisfy.  [When switching i/net gateway device I just changed
> the IP address of the LAN port of the router to that of the original
> PC and everything continued to work as normal.]

Manually or dhcp ?
 
> Pictorially, my LAN is roughly (use constant pitch font):
> 
>       ---------        ------------
>    10.| cable |     77.| Wireless |192.168.
> VM>---+       +--------+  router  +--------------
>       | modem |        | DHCP/DNS |             |
>       ---------        ---+--+--+--             |
>                                                 |
>                          ------192.168.     ----+-----
>                          | PC +-------------+ switch +
>                          ------             --+----+--
>                                               |
>                                               |192.168.
>                                            ---+--
>                                            | PC |
>                                            ------

Excellent, this is exactly what I assumed although where you have a
switch, the 4 ports on Lucy's Wireless router act as the same. 

It means everything should work fine if the wifi router can pick up the
IP details it needs.

Damion
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