On Tuesday 16 May 2006 11:52, Kin Wong wrote: > Mitchell Brown wrote: > > So how do I set all this up? My ISP tells me to set everything to > > automatic. > > If everything is automatic, then you are connecting to their network > through DHCP. They will have DNS servers which generally automatically > setup. > > Not sure exactly what you need to do to solve the problem, but here are > a couple of things to look at. When you were setting up IPCop, the > configuration of the red interface is where you would specify your > static ip and dns settings -- in your case your ip sounds like it is > dynamic, so I'm not sure if DNS will pop-up. (I can't get the menu up > on my IPCop box -- seem to have forgotten what to do to get the > configuration menu back up after logging in as root). If you are logged in to the box, the command is setup
> The other thing to look at is from your IPCop box, can you ping > www.google.com -- though things are automatic, certain ISP providers > lock you down to a single MAC address (each network device has a unique > MAC address) and when you change the router that provides NAT (Network > Address Translation) service so that multiple network devices can be > share a single Internet connection. They may need to refresh your > connection as you have changed from a black box router to an IPCop box > with nics (MAC address change for sure). > -- Neil Bower CLUG - http://clug.ca Registered Linux User # 323470 ( http://counter.li.org ) _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
