Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 08/19/2018 10:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/20/18 12:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: I don't think I've come across a router that doesn't let you do this.  I downloaded the manual for your router and the setting is in Advanced->Setup->LAN Setting. Disable the DHCP server.  Also in there, change the

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/20/18 12:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: > I don't think I've come across a router that doesn't let you do this.  I > downloaded > the manual for your router and the setting is in Advanced->Setup->LAN > Setting.  > Disable the DHCP server.  Also in there, change the IP address to one that is > avail

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 08/19/2018 05:26 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: It looks like the DHCP setup message from the Trend server does request the client (amito) to use search domain tew-818dru Yes, it does, but I don't know how that is relevant. It's a bad setup, but common. On Sat, 2018-08-18 at 10:01 -0700, S

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/20/18 08:26, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Thanks for your help Three responses follow. > > To recap, here is: > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf   > # Generated by NetworkManager search tew-818dru nameserver 192.168.10.1 > > On Sat, 2018-08-18 at 21:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> What is the output of hos

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-19 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Thanks for your help Three responses follow. To recap, here is:$ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager search tew-818dru nameserver 192.168.10.1 On Sat, 2018-08-18 at 21:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > What is the output of hostnamectl on your system $ hostnamectl Static hostname

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-19 Thread Jarmo Hurri
Jonathan Ryshpan writes: > Can anyone recommend a router that actually works? We recently had to select a router for the place where I work. After some consideration we went with Netgate/pfsense, and have been extremely happy: https://www.netgate.com/products/appliances/ https://www.pfsense.org

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/19/18 02:36, Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 18 August 2018, Ed Greshko sent: >> my DHCP server doesn't supply Domain Name > Not unusual. All sorts of different things may happen. > > Clients can use their own (ignoring the fact that it mightn't work with > anything else in the

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread David A. De Graaf
On 08/18/18 07:52, Tom Horsley wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 22:55:29 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: Can anyone recommend a router that actually works? I'm using this one which I wrote up on my web site: https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/rt-ac5300/rt-ac5300.html I believe asus has newer models the

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 August 2018, Ed Greshko sent: > my DHCP server doesn't supply Domain Name Not unusual. All sorts of different things may happen. Clients can use their own (ignoring the fact that it mightn't work with anything else in the network). They may or may not inform the DHCP s

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 08/18/2018 06:03 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/18/18 17:17, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: This is surely correct and explains a number of things that I've noticed. $ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager search tew-818dru nameserver 192.168.10.1 I suspect that the domain tew-818dru is ma

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 08/18/2018 02:24 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The diagram is too long for the list in .eps format, so I'm resending it with the diagram in .dia format. Let's hope it displays properly on your system. The .eps file worked fine but that was probably because the email was sent directly to me a

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/18 17:17, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > This is surely correct and explains a number of things that I've noticed. > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > # Generated by NetworkManager > search tew-818dru > nameserver 192.168.10.1 > I suspect that the domain tew-818dru is maintained by Trendnet. In any case

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 17 August 2018, Jonathan Ryshpan sent: > What is the device android-a81a750feb8c4486? There are only two > devices connected to the router by wires. Very odd. A phone or tablet. Or is your weather doodah android based? > The router has a DNS server in it. The server doe

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 22:55:29 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Can anyone > recommend a router that actually works? I'm using this one which I wrote up on my web site: https://tomhorsley.com/hardware/rt-ac5300/rt-ac5300.html I believe asus has newer models these days, but they all use similar fir

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/18 17:24, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I had thought that the DHCP communication tells computers attached to the > router > how to set up their routing, /etc/resolv.conf, etc. Maybe not. Yes, it does. This is a typical DHCP response   As you can see, it tells the client the IP address

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The diagram is too long for the list in .eps format, so I'm resending it with the diagram in .dia format. Let's hope it displays properly on your system. On Sat, 2018-08-18 at 15:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/18/18 13:55, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:I have just replaced my old > home router, whic

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
The diagram is too long for the list in .eps format, so I'm resending it with the diagram in .dia format. Let's hope it displays properly on your system. On Fri, 2018-08-17 at 23:31 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > The first issue is that you haven't described your network > configuration at all. Is t

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-18 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/18/18 13:55, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I have just replaced my old home router, which had stopped working, with a > Trendnet > AC1900 Dual Band Wireless Router, model TEW-818DRU. I need to replace the > Trendnet > router because I am totally unhappy with it. However, since the Trendnet > r

Re: Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
The first issue is that you haven't described your network configuration at all. Is this the main router that goes to your ISP device or is there another router/computer/device that does that? Is this router connected to your network through the WAN or LAN port? The way I configure networkin

Home Routers (Totally OT)

2018-08-17 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
I have just replaced my old home router, which had stopped working, with a Trendnet AC1900 Dual Band Wireless Router, model TEW-818DRU. I need to replace the Trendnet router because I am totally unhappy with it. However, since the Trendnet router was recommended by some sites which I usually trus