On Sunday 20 July 2003 11:21 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > Hey Keith- > > How does your home network get configured? Do you use DHCP or is the > downstairs PC hard-configured?
I have used both automatic DHCP and also manual config. > The DNS servers that your system uses probably gets dynamically configured > by your ISP. You should be able to see that information on your gateway by > either typing "ipconfig /all" in XP and "cat /etc/resolv.conf" in Linux. I did find the gateway by ifconfig and put that into the downstairs computer nic config, did no good at all. > If you are hard-coding the network configuration in the XP machine down > stairs, you should have the DNS servers configured in there (as in, > actually in the Network Config fields) and they shouldn't vary. If they > are hard configured and they are different than your gateway, perhaps the > DNS servers the XP box is using are having issues. This could explain why > the gateway and XP box see different results. Doing it in auto with or without a floppy disk from the upstairs machine, no dns figure appear. I can get one which was 210.49.48.1 and used that, which was the gateway my machine sees. No avail still no connection. > Many other possibilities, but we'll leave it at that for now and see where > it leads us. > > Sorry we haven't been able to help much yet. Do not be as everything I do eliminates something and that leaves the least like thing as the culprit. I do have Mandrake set to security HIGH. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161 Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
