[LUNI] Linksys routers/switches and Comcast Cable

[Tony Schlemmer]

On Monday 28 March 2005 23:32, Ricardo Pena wrote:
> this is a long shot but i figured i'd throw it out there.  i had the same
> symptom with dsl and my linksys wtr54g.  i figured out that the problem was
> originating from my linksys print server.  if you've got one of those
> little mugs, take it off.  as i said, quite a long shot but what the heck.
>

I've had this problem with my Hawking Technology network print server. If I 
have it powered up before my router it becomes the DHCP server on the 
network. It took me a while to figure out and by default it will not become a 
DHCP server if it detects there's already one on the network.  I did go ahead 
and to disable the DHCP server default settings on that little bugger  and 
assigned it a static IP address on my local subnet.

[snip]

> ricky
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Close" <aclose at gmail.com>
> To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion"
> <luni at luni.org> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Linksys routers/switches and Comcast
> Cable
> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:03:34 -0600
>
> > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:52:36 -0600 (CST), Mark Matula
> >
> > <mmatula at ratula.net> wrote:
> > > It is possible that the router IS connecting to the internet, but the
> > > clients aren't getting set properly for some reason (route or DNS).
> > >
> > > Conenct everything up as you had it, and try a traceroute to a known
> > > internet IP address, and see where it dies.
> > >
> > > If it makes it all the way, it would indicate a DNS issue.
> > > Depending on how far the traceroute gets, it could indicate a few
> > > different things.
> >
> > hmm, all these nifty tools i failed to play with last night.  i guess
> > i was tired...
> > i'll give that a try.  although since i wasn't able to manually setup
> > DNS when the router is configured to obtain its IP from the cable
> > modem i'm not sure i'll see a change.  checking the routers status
> > page i can see that it doesn't have an external IP or DNS servers
> > listed.
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Anthony Schlemmer
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