On Tuesday 27 January 2004 08:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I swapped back to the old router for a while.
>
> And yes I am using routable addresses, my ISP gives me a chunk of them.
My guess about tmdns is based on the fact that you are using routable
addresses. That is not normal. It is definitely not normal for an ADSL
router. It also may cause additional problems. I am not a networking guru
by any means, but if you run a DHCP server that assigns routable addresses,
you must also couple this with routing tables and DNS entries that get
updated for the target machine. If you have a single connection (ADSL) to
the ISP, I don't think that it is possible to have multiple routable IP
addresses that all go through that single LAN connection without some kind of
central router device to perform NAT. Normally, an ADSL router is not
authoritative for a DNS server, so assignments from your ADSL router do NOT
get updated into the DNS tables/routers of your ISP's network.
This understanding is based on the idea that you have a single MAC address for
your router and a single LAN connection (ADSL). Thus all network traffic to
your ISP and Internet appears to be coming from a single network device.
Normally, the ADSL router assigns internal addresses to separate devices and
routes the packets back to the individual originating devices. In your case,
the address is routable, which means that ISP DNS is responsible for sending
the packets back to the device which is different than the ADSL router that
made the original request. So, your ADSL router sends a packet request and
the return packets get routed back to whereever authoritative DNS says that
IP sits rather than back to the ADSL router.
Normal path like this:
Machine1
\
<--> ADSL Router <--> ISP <--> Internet
/
Machine2
And follows the same return path back again.
With your setup, the path seems more like this:
Machine1 <-- <--
\ \
--> ADSL Router --> ISP --> Internet
where the return packet bypasses the ADSL Router and gets routed directly to
Machine1 by the DNS of the ISP which is authoritative for routeable addresses
on their network.
So, either I am missing something obvious about your setup or you have left me
confused about what your network architecture really is.
> How do I disable tmdns?
service tmdns stop
chkconfig 2345 tmdns off
But see my note above.
I should suggest that you take a look at the current configuration settings
for your working router device and try to replicate those settings over to
the new device. That might be the shortest route to get a working
connection. Your ISP may have an expected MAC address for the router that
you need to clone to use the new router.
--
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer
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