Re: Network Places and DHCP on home lan
From: LaManchaDQ (LaManchaDQ_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/17/05
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:00:50 -0500
Also set the Netgear as a Gateway rather than Router and follow GTS' other
suggestion.
"GTS" <x> wrote in message news:%23oTGrJRFFHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> The ability to access the internet but not the other workstations is
> exactly what will happen when you have the two routers both acting as DHCP
> servers. Using a wireless router as an Access Point requires assigning it
> a static address and turning off it's DHCP function. See
> http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html for a details on how to configure.
>
> --
>
> "Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote in message
> news:u3bvvfceb.fsf@newsguy.com...
>>
>> I've always used static addresses inside my home lan until today. I'm
>> trying to use a netopia router designed for dsl/cable to lan. But
>> really using it inside the lan only as a wireless access point.
>>
>> Summary: I need a list of ways normally used to trouble shoot network
>> when dhcp addresses are in use.
>>
>> Details:
>> I've tried many setups but the only one I could get to work so far
>> that allows me to get what I wanted (a wireless segment inside home
>> lan)
>>
>> Looks like : INTERNET
>> |
>> DSL modem
>> |
>> ---------- NETGEAR ROUTER --------------------------
>> | | | | |
>> mch1 mch2 | mch3 mch5
>> wxp wxp | Linux Openbsd
>> |
>> Netopia router (out=192.168.0.1
>> | in=192.168.1.1
>> wirless Serving DHCP to 192.168.1.1-100)
>> |
>> Sony Laptop (DHCP)
>> mch4
>>
>> The trouble I'm having is getting the laptop (Mch4) to be accessable
>> to the other windows boxes from network neighborhood.
>>
>> The laptop can get out to internet ok, and can ping ftp etc to
>> everything inside.
>>
>> But I suddenly realized I don't even know how to ping the laptop. It
>> has a DHCP address. I've never really had any practicl dealings with
>> DHCP other than an occasional connect to internet from Kinkos or
>> similar.
>>
>> [aside]=> Other than getting it off the laptop at the console how do
>> people get the DHCP addresses of stuff on a lan.
>>
>> In this case I can get it manually from the console; 192.168.1.100 but
>> cannot ping it from elsewhere on lan. Even if I set up a static route
>> on another winxp box like route add 192.168.1.100 192.168.0.1 Still
>> ... no ping.
>>
>> That might be that the router is set to block ping by default. I'm
>> not really eager to delve deeply into that angle.
>>
>> I hoped someone could list out the normal ways one deals with dhcp
>> when network troubleshooting.. ie (ping traceroute.. what)
>> Are there tools that can dig out the dhcp address in use?
>
>
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