Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-16 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:10 PM 12/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: I should mention that I didn't install dhcpcd as an add-on stand alone install. I'm not sure which option I checked during the installation of Mandrake 9.0 that caused it to be installed but it was ready to go as soon as the OS installation finished. I

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-16 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:56 PM 12/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: Femme, I took a look at your latest post to Spence just before sending off my response. I have been away from the list because of work, so my time here has been spotty, at best. You are right. If you asked for boot-up assigned IP addressing during the ins

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-16 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:50 PM 12/15/2002 -0500, you wrote: I never thought to go any further on my original answer, which might have given you some peace of mind on this. I have had one of those weeks, and my weekend was spent on my knees tearing my network apart and cleaning. (Yuck! I hate cleaning!) Maybe this wi

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread Spencer Anderson
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:14:09 -0700 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:12 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >I know I'm coming into this thread a little late but I thought I'd throw > >my $.02 in anyway. I'm running 9.0 behind a Linksys router that's > >operating as a DHCP server and

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:12 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: I know I'm coming into this thread a little late but I thought I'd throw my $.02 in anyway. I'm running 9.0 behind a Linksys router that's operating as a DHCP server and I'm not having any problems accessing the internet at all. But then, I also have

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread greg
You know, I recently had this problem on my LM9 installation, and never managed to get my router working with it. You probably will, but I could not be buggered trying any more. It beat me like a dog! But this is something I feel Mandrake need to really address, as my Red Hat system configured a

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 15 December 2002 03:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 11:21 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Ok, sorry, like I said I was behind on the thread. What linux wants is > > the static IP of your computer the gateway address whether it is your > > gateway or the IPs gateway and the

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 11:21 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > Ok, sorry, like I said I was behind on the thread. What linux wants is the > static IP of your computer the gateway address whether it is your gateway > or the IPs gateway and the IPs DNS addresses. So if you set up your > internal computer

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-15 Thread Anne Wilson
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 ei

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I know I'm coming into this thread a little late but I thought I'd throw my $.02 in anyway. I'm running 9.0 behind a Linksys router that's operating as a DHCP server and I'm not having any problems accessing the internet at all. But then, I also have dhcpcd version 1.3.22pl1-3mdk installed.

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:40 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 03:33 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: > > > 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

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread FemmeFatale
At 05:46 PM 12/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: Femme, For the longest time, I was letting my Lynksys router/firewall/gateway do the DHCP for my mixed O/S network. During that time, my NT 4.0 Server was acting as a Primary Domain Control (PDC) and a secured resource center file sharing between my busine

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Technoslick
. Does this help any? T - Original Message - From: "FemmeFatale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice > >FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for t

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread FemmeFatale
At 03:33 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: > > 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 her

RE: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.)

2002-12-14 Thread Franki
work servers and telling me when they are down as well. very handy.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Sunday, 15 December 2002 5:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux installation & Router

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 December 2002 03:22 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 emer

RE: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.)

2002-12-14 Thread FemmeFatale
At 02:39 AM 12/15/2002 +0800, you wrote: I had a problem where my pppoe connection was lost two or three times a day.. Since I use it to host works stuff. I needed it to be able to reconnect itself.. so I wrote this script.. it needs a few perl modules installed.. but it works great.. Its rough

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-14 Thread FemmeFatale
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 experien

RE: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice (a freebie script I wrote for connection monitoring.)

2002-12-14 Thread Franki
$hour < 10) { $hour = "0$hour"; } if ($min < 10) { $min = "0$min"; } if ($sec < 10) { $sec = "0$sec"; } $year += 1900; $date = "$days[$wday], $months[$mon] $mday, $year at $hour\:$min\:$sec"; return $date; } exit(0); END OF SCRIPT

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 09:18, FemmeFatale wrote: > > All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing > linux behind a router? > > I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some > fiddling but its all good now. > > So any special caveats, inst

Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-13 Thread Rog
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:18:11 -0700, you wrote: > > > >All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing >linux behind a router? > >I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some >fiddling but its all good now. > >So any special caveats, instruct

[newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice

2002-12-13 Thread FemmeFatale
All I'm asking is there any special things I need to know when installing linux behind a router? I bought one recently, works great with the windows installs... Took some fiddling but its all good now. So any special caveats, instructions, advice? warnings? Thx - FemmeFatale Go