Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-21 Thread Mark
[SOLVED] At least for the most part - the immediate solution was to set my CentOS box to a static IP address and then connect it directly to the modem. Once that worked, I moved my machine's connection back to the router, but since the router's WAN connection settings don't seem to work (at

[CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread Mark
My internet connection is through a Siemens Speedstream 4100 DSL modem connected to ATT (sbcglobal.net), and a Dlink WBR-2310 router. Late last night, I changed the administrative password on the router, and for some reason it didn't take right, so I had to reset the router to get the password

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 01:26 -0700, Mark wrote: 1. If I connect my CentOS (main) box to the DSL modem, I can log into the modem and check all the settings, and I can ping sites on the web from there, but I can't actually get any web pages to load. This is using Firefox 3.6.4 (the LG). No

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread Mark
Sorry about the j - dvorak artifact Okay, let me try again. First, here's my (new) /etc/hosts file: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 mhrichter localhost localhost.localdomain #192.168.0.100 mhrichter

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 07:58:02AM -0700, Mark wrote: And after that I can't reach the modem or the internet. If I run ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0, I get the 192.168.0.100 IP address back, and I can reach the modem, but not the internet. What do you see with ip ro ls? Is there a default

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 07:58 -0700, Mark wrote: And after that I can't reach the modem or the internet. If I run ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0, I get the 192.168.0.100 IP address back, and I can reach the modem, but not the internet. Ok you getting a dhcp addy here? Look at

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread R-Elists
realistically you are not getting any dns when in dhcp mode, the /etc/resolv.conf file typically will point to the router ip instead of real dns servers once you deal with that, you should be ok... thing is, if you stay in dhcp mode, the next time you dhcp or reboot, the resolv.conf will go

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Whit Blauvelt w...@transpect.com wrote: What do you see with ip ro ls? Is there a default route? Yes, but it's going to the router even when the router is not in the loop. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:23 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: Ok you getting a dhcp

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:34:06AM -0700, Mark wrote: What do you see with ip ro ls? Is there a default route? Yes, but it's going to the router even when the router is not in the loop. Generally when someone asks What do you see in a computer context, the right answer is to run the command

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread Cia Watson
On 07/18/10 07:58 AM, Mark wrote: If I run ifup eth0, here's what I get: eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:90:F3:D2:8D inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 The mask: 255.255.255.0 above looks right, but down below: Local Network Modem IP

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 09:34 -0700, Mark wrote: route shows 192.168.0.2 (the router) as the DFG. In s-c-n, the gateways are 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.1, in that order. Aww take out the 192.168.0.1 and leave the 192.168.0.2 that is the Siemens Modem. Your dhcp range starts @ 192.168.0.100 If

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Whit Blauvelt w...@transpect.com wrote: Generally when someone asks What do you see in a computer context, the right answer is to run the command and paste the results. We need, not your interpretation of the data - which you know is confused, right? - but the

Re: [CentOS] DSL battling rojter - help!

2010-07-18 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Cia Watson ciama...@my180.net wrote: And on the above, the mask is: 255.255.255.255 I don't run dhclient or anything so I'm not sure where the config file is, but I'd suggest that in addition to what's already been suggested you probably want to change the