Re: Wireless Question

From: Kevin Miller (kevin_miller_at_ci.juneau.ak.us)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:02:45 -0800

Paul wrote:
> David Wright wrote:
>
>
>>Are your Gateway and DNS addresses correctly configured? If the Gateway is
>>incorrect, then the packets won't be able to find they way to the internet,
>>and if the DNS is incorrect (or on the other side of the gateway), it also
>>won't be able to dereference.
>
>
> Don't know. I thought with DHCP I didn't have to mess with configuring
> Gateway and DNS addresses.

Well, yes and no. Your Linksys probaby get's it's gateway and dns
addresses from your ISP when it connects, but those are for it. You'll
need to go into the management program on the Linksys and configure it
so it knows what to pass to the clients on the inside.

The gateway to pass will be the ip address of the inside interface on
the Linksys. The dns numbers are probably posted on your ISPs website
somewhere.

It may be that the Linksys will pass on the dns numbers it receives
automatically - I use a Netgear router and they may or may not do it the
same way.

You'll have to make sure that dhcp is enabled on the Linksys so that it
is actually doling out addresses. I turn mine off and use statics.
With only a couple of machines on my inside network there's not much
point in using DHCP. YMMV.

HTH...

...Kevin 

-- 
Kevin Miller
Juneau, Alaska
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb

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