>No luck pinging with WhatRoute.
>
>Result was "Error Opening Transport Endpoints: - 3221"
That sure isn't an error I'd expect; when I've tried to ping on machines
that I know have a config problem, Whatroute just give a failed/timeout for
each ping attempt (if I tried to ping an IP), or a
"failed to resolve" error if I tried to ping a domain, and my domain
services weren't config'd correctly.
This makes me suspect your TCP/IP installation is missing pieces or is
corrupt... perhaps reinstall it.
Have you got working ethernet internet connections if you take your laptop
elsewhere (library or something) that provides DHCP? Do we *know* that
TCP/IP ever works over ethernet on this laptop? :)
>How do I check the router setup? (It's a Telsey CPV Residential Gateway,
>which also carries our voice phone line).
No idea; is it web configurable? You'll have to check the instructions, I
don't know that model.
You aren't limited to just 2 computers on your DSL line are you? If they
provided the router they could force that limitation.
>To check the 3400 with Manual IP address, etc., how can I test that without
>an assigned IP address?
If your router is broadcasting DHCP you can usually just sneak a static IP
in there; as long as no one else is using that IP you won't have conflicts.
I've never had a problem doing this with any cable or DSL routers anyway,
and only once at one university. These little routers will accept anything
from x.x.x.2 to x.x.x.253 usually, although some come set to only go up to
x.x.x.32 in the default config.
What this means, is you can have a DHCP server set up but set up some
machines in the LAN via static IP anyway, just fine. In fact sometimes you
want it this way.
So:
In the 3400's TCP/IP panel, set it to "manual", specify an IP similar in
format to what one of your other macs acquires via DHCP (look at their
TCP/IP panel) (192.168.1.x likely, just be sure to keep the first 4 numbers
the same as on the working macs, and use the same subnet mask as on the
working computer) and just increment the last number by one to get an IP to
use for the 3400. umm..better, look at your each of your other macs and
increment the highest IP by one :) you can't have 2 machines with the same
IP. Everybody has to be unique.
You will have to specify (all via IP, not names) the IP, the gateway/router
address, the subnet mask, and (important) the DNS server by hand. If you
get the DNS wrong, "pings" of IP numbers can work but pings of domain names
(like apple.com) will fail.
You can get most of this info from one of your working Macs. The DNS
server IP, if you don't know it, you might have to read your providers
instructions, or you can glean it from WhatRoute if you put WhatRoute on
one of the working macs).
HTH. It's not as hard as the long mail might make it look, should be a
really quick test.
If setting up the manual IP thing doesn't work, my next step would be to
reinstall Open Transport, that error is not usual. At this point my guess
is your Open Transport services got corrupted somehow and are the cause of
the problem. If the other macs are working and you don't have a limitation
on the number of computers that you can add to your network, I'd not mess
with the router config.
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