Re: [newbie] cable modem, router problem

2001-06-24 Thread Tim Holmes
So you can't ping the router itself either? That I didn't pick up. Have you given the router itself a secondary IP address? Like 198.162.0.1? And then giving the other machines other IP addresses on that range. If you make sure that the machine knows it's gateway is 198.162.0.1, and their

Re: [newbie] cable modem, router problem

2001-06-23 Thread Tim Holmes
Meanwhile, I'm not exactly sure how those routers identify themselves, but I have a guess. I THINK the router's switch port has a MAC address. And that's probably why it's causing a problem. RoadRunner identifies machines on it's Cable network via MAC address. When you had your machine

[newbie] cable modem, router problem

2001-06-22 Thread Jim Downs
First of all thanks to everyone in advance, and I apologize for the long post! I am unable to connect through my router to my cable modem. I subscribed last week to Road Runner service here in the New York City area. In order to set up a quick LAN I purchased a Netgear RT314 Gateway Router and 2