I got the router and installation was "almost" painless - there's no free
lunch ;-)
I'm back on-line with excellent speed - so I guess the problem was the old
Alcatel Home.
The one small problem I had was that I always had static IP addresses on my
machines and after 3 or 4 attempts to set up the router without DHCP, I gave
up and went with the default. Adding DHCP on the other Linux machines was
trivial and even in WinXP not difficult.
BUT - I was now left with problematical /etc/host files on all the machines. I
could no longer ping shlomo1 or shoshana, etc, but only by the dynamic IP. I
solved that by adding a second IP address as follows:
ifconfig eth0:0 10.200.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.200.1.255
route add -host 10.200.1.1 dev eth0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:E6:1E:5F:81
inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:e6ff:fe1e:5f81/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9687335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:11381636 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3319938186 (3.0 GiB) TX bytes:2799449538 (2.6 GiB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x6000
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:E6:1E:5F:81
inet addr:10.200.1.1 Bcast:10.200.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:124080 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:124080 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6927154 (6.6 MiB) TX bytes:6927154 (6.6 MiB)
I can now ping to the various hosts, but I'm still left with 2 problems:
1 - How do I make the second IP survive a re-boot (or is this not the proper
way to solve the problem in the first place?
2 - Even with the dual IP addresses, I can not mount nfs shares. For example,
on shoshana I have the following line in /etc/fstab:
shlomo1.solomon:/data3/share_all /home/shoshana/public nfs defaults 0 0
But when I try to mount /home/shoshana/public, I get "Permission denied"
BTW - I did see that the router allows you to reserve specific IPs according
to MAC addresses. Is this what I should be doing? If so, I could still have
my original IP addresses, but it seems to sort of defeat the whole purpose of
DHCP.
--
Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
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