[Solved] Re: [OT] Using a wireless router...



On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:26:57PM -0600, Glenn English wrote:
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Kenward Vaughan wrote:

can ping, telnet, etc., other machines on the LAN,
but it does not make it outside. I cannot ping a numeric IP address
("destination port unreachable" from the 486 gateway) or anything like
ftp.debian.org (times out).

Is there a default route in the Netgear, a gateway to the rest of the
universe? It sounds to me like you're able to reach addresses on the
network connected to the Netgear, but nobody knows what to do to get
beyond that network.


$*#%$!!

I screwed around with this for quite a while today/night, and finally
got it working. Tried to backtrack by deleting various things set up,
to determine the point which made the difference (since most of what I
tried made no sense to me anyway).

Things stopped working unexpectedly, and couldn't be restarted by
reversing stuff.

Then I suddenly remembered that the mobile box used to be my son's--he
got a bit too tied up in online games so we moved it out and zapped his
account on it.

I never changed the old 486's firewall, which was set to open up only
at certain times for him. Adjusted Shorewall's rules... Done deal.

Gotta remember Sherlock Holmes' comments about what to look for when
all other possibilities have been eliminated...



is this a setup which has no
chance of working?

No. It oughta work. The players just need to be told where the doors
are.

- --
Glenn English

Thanks for the motivating thoughts, Glenn. My playing around with
everything, based on these, brought it together for me finally.


Kenward
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