Re: Home Network Probs - HELP CHUCK!!!

From: Martin (invalid.vk2umj_at_invalid.yahoo.com.au)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:03:59 +1100

"Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c3b4a5413514858989d8e@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
> In article <33ca4rF3um5drU1@individual.net>,
> invalid.vk2umj@invalid.yahoo.com.au says...
>> So, here are the relevant results from ipconfig, browstat and nbstat.
>> I'm
>> not sure why "jess" has a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0, the DHCP server on
>> the
>> router is set to 255.255.255.0, and if I try to manually assign an IP
>> address to "jess" (even the same address as it is now allocated and
>> change
>> the allocation addresses of the dhcp server) it will no longer access the
>> internet or the network at all - only works with auto assigned IP
>> address!!
>
> To me, and I've not been following this, the dead-give-away is the
> failure to get a good IP/Mask at Jess.
>
> If the router is providing DHCP, then all machines should have something
> like the following:
>
> IP Address........... 192.168.1.100 (guessing at 100 being first)
> Subnet Mask.......... 255.255.255.0
> Default Gateway...... 192.168.1.1 (assuming the router at 1.1)
>
> Each machine/node should have a different IP Address, but the subnet
> mask and the default gateway should be the same across all machines.
>

Yep, that was the problem. A reset of the router back to default seemed to
remedy the fault, although not sure what caused the router to have this
hicup in the first place??!!!??!!!

Certainly explains why fiddling with the computers all this time wasn't
making any difference!!!!!

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