Re: Router Setup Problem

>     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 <http://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 <http://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@butash.net
>     <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'michael@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> <http://tc.ph.cox.net> to
>             ph.cox.net <http://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> <http://google.com>, the
>             error is ping: unknown host
>             google.com <http://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

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