internet problem

Wed Oct 15 13:02:37 MST 2014

Hmm.  I can think of a few possible ways, none of which are guaranteed until DHCP is working! (Chicken, meet egg!)

Load wireshark on a computer, start it capturing, and then connect your Ethernet cable to the Linksys.  See if you see anything on the wire at all, and especially DHCP requests.

I’m stuck thinking of other things.

I will ask – do you really have to have the router there?  Could you try a normal switch/hub/whatever?

(So I just replied to the other email, now I’ll start a rabbit trail that may NOT be a rabbit trail at all).

So, here is my understanding of what you should have in order to talk to the Linksys and configure it:

[Linksys] --- [PC] (with associated monitor and keyboard)

If the Linksys is connected to anything else that’s (probably) OK, but the PC should only be hooked to the Linksys.  Then it (should) get its IP from the Linksys, and all we’ve said should start working.

And then you should be able to connect to the Linksys with the IP address figured out from what ET said J

From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:54 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: internet problem

this was working until I moved my computer to be against another wall in the same room. I checked all the connections. The Link status lights are all correct. How do I check the DHCP status?

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty at smartm.com> wrote:

One thing strikes me – why do you have a router between your living room with the XBMC box and your bedrooms?  Does your modem do firewalling?  (I hope so for the sake of the living room dwellers ;-))

IF your modem (actiontek) doesn’t do firewalling, then you need to fix that asap, IMHO.

If your modem DOES, then you COULD just use any old network switch (hub, whatever) between the living room and the bedrooms.  Unless there’s some security problem you haven’t mentioned ;-)

Another thing strikes me – this whole thing started because of some problem with something… 

Ah, there it is: ‘the internet after the Linksys would not connect’.  That statement and the no DHCP could be related (probably are, now that I think of it).

So, are all the appropriate Link status lights on the Linksys lit?  How about on the devices connected on the other end of the wire to the Linksys?  (Are all the wires plugged in completely?)

From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Carruth, Rusty
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:36 PM
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Subject: RE: internet problem

That’s bad.  Try disconnecting the Ethernet between the Linksys and the PC, wait about 30 seconds, and plug it back in and see if you get DHCP.  (I had this problem a while back with my Linux DHCP server, and that was the solution)

Also, look in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog (depending upon your variant – there may be another place also but these are where I know of) and see if your PC was asking for DHCP…

From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:33 PM
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Subject: Re: internet problem

Yes.... i wrote the instructions on configuring the linksys to work with the modem down so all I am concerned with is connecting to the linksys. Sorry I didn't mention that. 

     The router doesn't seem to be handing out ip addresses. I didn't change anything in the pc so DHCP should be enabled.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:05 PM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

Assuming that you are DHCP(ing) (and you better be), you can also:
$ ip route show|grep 'default via' 
Whatever address you see, is your router.
YMMV...
ET 

Carruth, Rusty writes: 

Looking only at the ‘connecting to the linksys’ issue. 
If the Linksys is giving out IP addresses to the pc like it should (and assuming the PC is set for DHCP), you should be able to figure out the ‘correct’ IP address of the Linksys. 
So, do ‘ifconfig’ on the PC to see what address it got (192.168.0.123 or 192.168.1.2 or whatever), and change the last octet to 1 and you should have your linksys IP address.   Hopefully ;-) 
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:41 AM
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Subject: Re: internet problem 

well it isn't really two routes. 1 is a modem router. 

:-)~MIKE~(-: 

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. <mailing-lists at phoenixinternet.net> wrote: 
Michael,
If I remember correctly, you have 2 routers. You should refer to your old conversations on this message board where myself and others described how to setup your network. I would never have hit the reset button, your issue was probably with your cabling. 
Gilbert 

On 10/15/2014 11:18 AM, Michael Havens wrote: 
        Here is my setup: 
        I have the modem (actiontek pk5000) in the living room for my xbmc box. From there I ran a hardwire into the office into a router (linksys wrt54g) which feeds a computer in my brothers room and my main computer. 

        I decided to move my main computer and after I did so the internet after the linksys would not connect. so I unplugged the linksys and reconnected the power but that didn't help. SO I figured that maybe I needed to reconfigure it so I pressed the reset button for 30 seconds and connected the internet port to the computer  and restarted the computer but I couldn't get into the configuration page (192.168.1.1). I seem to remember that it was 192.168.101.1 but that didn't work either. What am I doing wrong?

        :-)~MIKE~(-: 

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