Router Setup Problem

[Mark Phillips]

Ok...I changed the new router's address to 192.168.25.1 (the same as the
old router), and now everything works.

Thanks!

Mark

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the gateway for. Your network. Is it the router itself on .5? Or
> is it on .1?
>
> If dhcp is handing out .1 as its gateway and you assign .5 manually you
> would have good internal connection but no route to the Internet.
>
>
> On Friday, March 29, 2013, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> Sorry, Michael, I am a little lost.
>>
>> i changed the gateway entry in my /etc/network/interfaces file to be
>> 192.168.25.5. Are you talking about something else? I am only trying to
>> connect over the wired network from my laptop to the Internet, with a fixed
>> IP. My interfaces file has the following (the comments are the old values):
>>
>> auto lo
>> iface lo inet loopback
>>
>> # The primary network interface
>> iface eth0 inet static
>>       address 192.168.25.150
>>       netmask 255.255.255.0
>>       gateway 192.168.25.5
>>       dns-search ph.cox.net
>>       dns-nameservers 68.105.28.12 68.105.29.12 68.105.28.11
>>       #gateway 192.168.25.1
>>       #dns-search tc.ph.cox.net
>>       #dns-nameservers 68.2.16.25 68.2.16.30
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Did you update your default gateway to be .5 instead of .1 for the dhcp
>>> scope handing out to clients?  If your gateway is still pointing at .1, or
>>> your dhcp gateway is handing out .1 where your router/gateway is .5, that
>>> would do it.
>>>
>>> -mb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/29/2013 07:39 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just received a new ASUS RT-N16 running dd-wrt from Flashrouters. I
>>>> replaced my aging Linksys BEFSX41. The only change I made was to the LAN
>>>> IP - the router comes setup with 192.168.1.1, and I changed it to
>>>> 192.168.25.5 (my network is 192.168.25.xxx). I connected the new router
>>>> to Cox through my cable modem, got a new DHCP WAN IP and new dns
>>>> nameservers. I updated my
>>>> /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the new
>>>> dns nameservers,
>>>> dns-search (changed from tc.ph.cox.net <http://tc.ph.cox.net> to
>>>> ph.cox.net <http://ph.cox.net>), and
>>>>
>>>> the gateway from 192.168.25.1 (old router) to 192.168.25.5 (new router)
>>>> (I use a fixed IP on the wired network, and DHCP for the wireless)
>>>>
>>>> I can connect to the Internet using the wireless part of the new router,
>>>> but the wired part of the new router times out on access to the
>>>> Internet. I can ping all my local machines on the wired network. When I
>>>> ping google.com <http://google.com>, the error is ping: unknown host
>>>> google.com <http://google.com>, so I assume I cannot resolve any
>>>>
>>>> Internet addresses.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions on how to further troubleshoot/fix this problem?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, and Happy Good Friday to everyone!
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>>>
>>>>  ---------------------------------------------------
>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>
> Stephen
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.phxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20130329/a015a0cd/attachment.html>