On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 9:22 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > >FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The > >changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen > > no problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no > > problems emerged either. > > > >Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my experience to be a > > non-issue. > > > >HTH > > > >Anne > > Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. > > I went to install linux, everything went fine & I chose "DHCP connection" > as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server > after all, giving out addy's for our comps here. Fine... Install went OK, > it couldn't update packages but I expected that. Rebooted into linux, it > was fine. No internet. That was my first clue something was amiss. > > Fiddling with things with both the expert & novice controls I found out > that I had to disable "DHCP/Bootp" & enable a static IP addy. WTH? Makes > no sense, and I had to put in gateway & DNS numbers (the routers IP > sufficed here). Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!? OK > something is amiss... but what?
Maybe that's why my setup went so easily? I do prefer static ips, and set up a table on the router. The one laptop that connects does use dynamic, but it's windowsme, so anything goes there. Perhaps Denis's idea is the answer to your problem. Sorry I can't help more Anne
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