Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 19 December 2010 11:53:33 Dale wrote:
This was fun.
:-)
I tried to set it up the way you explained but
apparently I ain't to good with this. Now the router don't work at
all and I had to hit the reset button on the modem. I'm glad I
could remember the password. :/
Ook!
I got the router working again. Reset button and turning them on in
sequence got it to working again. Yeppie !!
OK. The IP I get from AT&T is set by them and it changes. I think
that is dynamic not static. So, I assume that part of the
connection has to be DHCP. Correct? That was how I left it anyway.
Yes, that's right. So your modem's outer connection sends a DHCP request
over the phone line, gets a name and an address and sets itself up to
use them. So far so good.
Where does this network idiot go from here? I think the modem got
mad when I told it to let the router set the IP between it and the
modem.
Ah! I think I see what happened here. The modem won't be able to ask for
an address on its inner side; you'll have to tell it what address to use
as it's going to be the fixed point that other devices use to get out to
the Internet. Then tell your router what address to use to talk to it.
(If you're like me you'll get confused over which connection you're
working on while setting up two-interface devices.)
Would you mind telling me why you have a router between yourself and the
modem? (Maybe you've told us already and I missed it.) If all the
connections are via Ethernet you can omit the router for the moment and
get a connection established direct to the modem. Once that's working
you can put the router back and we can think about getting it working
too.
Well, I plan to put another puter on the network before to long. I'll
have two computers and one internet connection so in comes the router.
Right now, I'm trying to get one to work. Then maybe I will understand
how to add another. That's the plan anyway.
P.S. Going to look for a howto to see if it at least helps me
understand how this works.
Good idea - maybe it'll make better sense to you than I do :-)
I read two of them. I think it is more muddier now than it was. It
didn't seem to help a lot. Once I get confused, I'm stuck. Once I get
it tho, I got it.
Dale
:-) :-)
