My limited experience suggests that all routers are delivered with the IP address of 192.168.1.1. To configure the router a portable (usually) host needs to be converted from its LAN to the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. I want to learn what needs to be checked and altered as necessary when changing the portable's eth0 IP address to the new subnet is insufficient. My web search fu hasn't found a list of required settings.
When 'ifconfig eth0' shows the IP address in the proper subnet, e.g., 192.168.1.4 (and eth0 is UP and RUNNING), but the browser cannot connect to the new router at 192.168.1.1, other network settings likely are not correct. The laptop's /etc/resolv.conf contains 127.0.0.1 which I understand is the proper DNS server for this purpose. On the LAN '/sbin/route -n' has this output: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.55.4 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 Should the gateway be deleted and a new one (192.168.1.1) added using 'route add default gw 192.168.1.1'? Are there other settings that need to be checked or changed so that the laptop can both ping 192.168.1.1 and connect to it using the brower? Looking forward to learning, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
