[Gllug] wicd manager

Tue Oct 27 00:42:16 UTC 2009

> There you go - no
DNS address! A quick fix is to log in to the free
> option at
http://www.opendns.com and create a free account, then use the
>
DNS addresses provided. Another option is to use the DNS servers at
>
4.2.2.x, where x is 1 to 6 (ping each of them to see which is
fastest),
> though you'll find that they are a lot slower than
using openDNS.
> > 
> > MTU is 1500
> 

These are the readings after I have inserted the Primary DNS address 208.67.220.222 and Secondary DNS address 208.67.220.220 from www.opendns.com 

LAN

MAC
Address 

00-11-95-08-1f-0c

IP
Address 

192.168.0.1

Subnet
Mask 

255.255.255.0

DHCP
Server 

Disabled

WAN

MAC
Address 

00-11-95-08-1f-0d

Connection 

DHCP
Client Disconnected   

IP
Address 

0.0.0.0

Subnet
Mask 

0.0.0.0

Default
Gateway 

0.0.0.0

DNS 

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220 

ip addr sh

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 

    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000

    link/ether 00:00:f0:71:c3:41 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

    inet 86.1.111.198/22 brd 255.255.255.255 scope global eth0

    inet6 fe80::200:f0ff:fe71:c341/64 scope link 

       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000

    link/ether 00:0e:35:1e:de:f8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

ip route sh

86.1.108.0/22 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 86.1.111.198 

169.254.0.0/16 dev pan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 169.254.9.207 

default via 86.1.108.1 dev eth0 

default dev pan0  scope link  metric 1000 

> 
> Okay so when you connect a computer to the cable router it's probably
> doing some direct passthrough, it's not likely to be providing you with
> a small subnet of direct Internet routeable IPs. This could be pppoa
> pppoe or just the router letting you have the valid IP updating via dhcp
> and keeping something else internal itself to its def.gw (the 10.
> address we saw before presumably).
> 
> These details:
> 
> IP: 86.1.111.198 (mask 255.255.252.0 - this is important due to the gw)
> gw: 86.1.108.1
> DNS: 194.168.4.100 and 194.168.8.100
> 

how do you get the def.gw readings?

Lucy 

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