internet problem

[Stephen Partington]

Silly question did you reboot the cable modem in all of this?
On Oct 15, 2014 12:55 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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~(-:
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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty at smartm.com> wrote:
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>> 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 ;-))
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>> IF your modem (actiontek) doesn't do firewalling, then you need to fix
>> that asap, IMHO.
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>> 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 ;-)
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>> Another thing strikes me - this whole thing started because of some
>> problem with something...
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>> 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).
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>> 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?)
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>> *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
>> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
>> *Subject:* RE: internet problem
>>
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>> 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)
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>> 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...
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>> *From:* plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [
>> mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org
>> <plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org>] *On Behalf Of *Michael Havens
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:33 PM
>> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
>> *Subject:* Re: internet problem
>>
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>> 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.
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>>      The router doesn't seem to be handing out ip addresses. I didn't
>> change anything in the pc so DHCP should be enabled.
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>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:05 PM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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>> 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
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>> Subject: Re: internet problem
>>
>> well it isn't really two routes. 1 is a modem router.
>>
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>> 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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