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-----Original Message----- From: Chris Darby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 May 2004 11:16 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IPCop postinstall David Taylor wrote: > Chris, setup your clients with either a static IP in the same subnet as the > green scope, or configure the dhcp server in ipcop. Your gateway for green > needs to be the IPCop box, and the easiest way to do this is to use Static > assignments in green or the DHCP server built in. It sounds like you are > really close. Maybe it is Telstra? Try unplugging your modem from the wall > for 30 seconds so that the MAC of your public (red) nic gets registered in > their head end equipment. What version of IPCop are you installing? Unplugging the modem from the wall is a good idea, I'll give that a shot. The reason I didn't want to use DHCP was because in the old system that required a computer on all the time, the other computers had static IPs on the network, and (I thought) it would be easier to leave them as is. Ok that is a good reason to leave them as is. Check gateway and DNS. Both should be IPcop for best results. I assume you have lmhosts and/or hosts files for the internal lan, when no dns server is available. Ipcop acts as a caching dns, so I leave mine on all the time... On the page of IPCop's setup (1.3.0 btw) - RED interface: Enter the IP address information for the RED interface - am I putting in the IP of the NIC I want to connect to the modem (some particular IP within 192.168.0.x), the modem's IP (192.168.100.1), or my paradise IP of 218.101.50.166? Your modem red interface IP is the IP settings you would assign to a single machine if it was hanging off the back of the cable modem. Telstra currently assigns static real world IPs, so put in your stuff Telstra gave you in the fields on the red interface. 218.101.50.166 etc etc. And the next page, DNS and Gateway settings, is Default Gateway the paradise gateway of 218.101.50.1? Yes Or the modem as 192.168.100.1? No Think of red as a substitute for a PC. Put in all the settings to IPcop red as you would for a single PC on a cable modem etc. That should help. It is confusing, but once you have set up one, it all becomes clear(er). Terminology and topology are gotchas that are part of the unavoidable learning curve. Good on ya for giving it a go. Sorry for the quite probably newbie questions. What's confusing me here is how much information I need to give IPCop and what it can find out just from being plugged into Paradise. Telstra / Paradise give you nothing automatically, so you have to manually put in the settings. Back in Vancouver, the Cable ISP blocked ports TCP 135-139 and assigned all the modems by DHCP, all you had to do was setup DHCP. Here, you have to copy all the settings over from the setup sheet or from your existing, working machine, using ipconfig /all (or winipcfg) Thanks, -- Chris. No problem, Dave
