Re: Fwd: Re: [SLE] Configuring a Router SOLVED

From: Nick Selby (ns_at_nickselby.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:06:32 +0100

    On Wednesday 31 December 2003 17:35, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
    <snip>
    > > > WOW! Let me say that backwards !WOW
    > > >
    > > > Many, many thanks for your quick reply to my query.
    > > >
    > > > Amazingly simple, at least so far
    > > >
    > > > At 08:52 AM 12/31/2003, you wrote:
    > > > >On Wednesday 31 December 2003 14:44, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
    > > > > > I have just installed a Linksys router on my LAN. As I am
    > > > > > functionally illiterate with regard to such things (it took me
    > > > > > three days and many hours on the telephone to get my Win2000 box
    > > > > > working with the router) what is the simplest way for me to get the
    > > > > > linux machine on my LAN to communicate with the router?
    > > > > >
    > > > > > Oh yes, I have a DSL connection to the internet.
    > > > >
    > > > >Should be rather trivial.
    > > > >
    > > > >1. Plug the router into the wall, into the DSL modem and plug your
    > > > > linux machine into it.
    > > > >
    > > > >2. I assume you already have the router on speaking terms with your
    > > > > DSL provider; if not you can do it after you get it on speaking terms
    > > > > with the Linux machine.
    > > > >
    > > > >3. Go into Yast and configure the ethernet device you will use to
    > > > > speak with the router to be DHCP everything - IP, host name, etc.
    > > > > Click okay and let it run suse config

    > OK, it's at this point that I don't know what I'm doing. I have
    > reconfigured the nic to accept a dynamic IP via DHCP and that seems to
    > work. I can log on to 192.168.1.1/Index.htm and that gets me to the
    > Linksys page via my browser, I assume that is on my router. The
    > routing table shows me that I have local and internet interfaces.
    </snip>

    Since the first question was solved I posted this as SOLVED and changed the
    thread to address two other issues you brought up.

    Happy New Year!

    Nikc 

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