begin quoting Karl Cunningham as of Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0700:
> On 9/10/2007 3:58 PM, Serge Rey wrote:
> >hi all,
> >
> >i got a static ip coming into the house that connects to a linksys
> >router. on the inside i have a fedora box, debian box and a few macs
> >that get interal static private addresses. this all has worked
> >flawlessly till a few weeks ago. now, whenever i start either kopete
> >or gaim or adium (on the macs) a connection is made from the client
> >but i loose my external static ip and have to reset the router to get
> >it back.
Is the static IP being assigned by DHCP or something?
<speakeasy>---<modem>--<linksys>
||+-----<computer1>
|+------<computer2>
+-------<computer3>
> >the truly weird thing is that we also have a wireless wap that gets a
> >private ip from the same linksys router, and if i use a chat client on
> >a laptop wirelessly, then there is no problem with losing the static
> >ip.
<speakeasy>---<modem>--<linksys>
|||+-----<computer1>
||+------<computer2>
|+-------<computer3>
|
<wap>)) ) ) ) ) ) )<laptop>
Can you connect to the linksys box and watch the logs as you connect
and as it drops the static IP address? Can you look up what the IP
address becomes?
> When you say you loose the external static IP, what exactly happens? Are
> you loosing your connection to the Internet?
They're running over to my house, I'm afraid.
> If you try pinging the gateway while causing your problem, can you ping
> the gateway the whole time or does that drop?
Lack of leashes.
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