Perhaps you need a cross over cable between the modem and the router? -Hal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry for the OT, but unable to raise anyone at comcast right now. > > I think I recall having read somewhere that one can do something to > discover what devices are on a network (Home lan). And what there > addresses are. > > I've recently switched from DSL to Cable connection but still have > both working currently. > > I had assumed my netgear-firewall/router would find the Cable modem and > be able to talk to it, but that isn't happening. > > I can connect the cable modem direct to a pc and using the software > that comes with it establish a connection to the internet, but I > wanted to have that firewall/router in between the cable modem and home > pcs. > > But that is only on a windows machine. > > The help file that comes with the modem provides no information about > how one talks to the modem. No ethernet address is supplied. However > it is an ethernet device and connects to the pc with ethernet cable. > > Apparently comcast felt it wiser to provide no details and let its > software do the connecting. > > But can't I learn the IP address (inward facing) of the modem? The IP > from outside is of course visible to ipconfig, when connecting to > internet from a windows machine thru the cable modem, but I see > nothing that indicates what its lanside ethernet address is. > > Its obviously connecting to the pc with dhcp so setting the netgear to > listen for dhcp seemed like it should work... but doesn't. > > I thought I would be able to connect to the cable modem with a browser > and maybe learn enough to make the netgear router/firewall connect to > it, or one of my gentoo boxes, so have tried a few of the > semi-standard addresses other ethernet hubs/routers etc default to, like > 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1 and a few more. > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
