On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Ken -- There is one part of your latest reply that I do not understand. > > > Thanks, I think this is what I did from the iBook. Trouble is, it fails > >to negotiate an ip address from the server (either it ignores the > >specification to use my `router', or it's asking the firewall for the > >address.) It then falls back to trying ping (but doesn't specify who or > >where). Hence my original question. > > Since I suggest two different approaches, I am not certain which of them > "this" refers to. > Sorry, I meant the second. > If it is the second ... then I am still unclear on what some of the "it"s > refer to, as well as whether the "router" and the "firewall" are both the > same Linux device or if you mean one term or the other to refer to some > different device.
Sorry again. They are indeed the same (I'm worried about calling it a firewall while iptables isn't running). > For the second approach to work, the iBook itself has a LAN address (either > assigned statically or via a LAN DHCP server). The ISP then needs to be > assigning the external address by DHCP, using the router's MAC address for > authentication. To get this last part to work, you may need to reboot the > router, or at least force it to request a new DHCP lease. > Agreed. I've got static addresses internally. The registration CD uses a two-part process : check the system (the iBook, in this case), make sure IE is running, unknown other checks. It waits to reboot. At this point I relinquish the lease, power-cycle the set-top box, request (and get) a new address (mostly the same as before), then reboot the mac. > Or it may not work at all. Depends on the details of how the ISP expects > you to authenticate yourself. > Would you believe three, or four sets, of passwords or numbers and they don't ask for them in the same way as the printed manual says they will - at least on the mac it asks for two of them plus a username before it attempts to get the address, but it doesn't ask for the serial number that the manual says will be the first thing required. It will be a good game. Ken -- Out of the darkness a voice spake unto me, saying "smile, things could be worse". So I smiled, and lo, things became worse. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
