Debian and Linksys Blue Box

From: Tom (lfs.1_at_spam.net)
Date: 04/26/05 

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:58:32 -0500

I have several computers behind one of those Linksys
DSL Blue Boxes. This is a good way to set up a
business system on the interenet, because the blue
box is too simple to be hacked from the outside
world as I understand it.

Anyway I have Samba working on the network.
Using Samba the computers know each other by
name. But how does one give names to the Linux
computers behind the blue box? The blue box
uses dhcp to give the computers ip addresses but
that is it. You cannot specify which MAC address
gets which IP.

Earlier in a post in this newsgroup it was suggested
that one should not use dhcp with these blue
Linksys DSL switches. One should limit the
IP addresses available on the Linksys dhcp server
and use the addresses not available as static
addresses.

So I ran the command
apt-get remove dhcp-client

And then I could no longer connect to the internet.
OK, was this a mistake and if so what is the correct
method?

I tried various methods to get an internet connection
going at this point. After reboot Debian no longer set
up eth0, so I had to do this manually with ifconfig.

This would allow my internel network to work
properly but still no connection to the internet.
The route add command would not work(why did this
happen???? ) , and the
command netstat -rn showed that I had no routing
tables.

Finally, I gave up and ran the command

apt-get install dhcp-client

which thankfully worked with no connection to the
internet and I was up and running again with an
internet connection.

Does one need to use dhcp with one of these Linksys
Blue boxes?

If not, how do you get to the internet without it?

Relevant Pages

  • Re: No Internet Connection w/ Router
    ... So I decided to switch back to the Westell Model 2200 modem and use a Linksys wrt54gs for the LAN. ... Using the modem and one desktop only, internet connection is fine. ... When I add the router the router connection seems to be fine but I can't get the internet connection. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: Do not want to Network, just want internet connection.
    ... In order to use three computers sharing one Internet connection they have to be connected to the same Router, then by default they are on the same network, there is No way around it. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing)
  • Re: Setting up a network connection
    ... Are all the computers supposed to have internet connection ?? ... DSL modem to the router switch and each of the computers to the router. ... an internal network assuming the router is used as the DHCP server for the ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: Heres what.
    ... Tracker doesnt know anything about computers. ... Hackers like to hack computers on the internet. ... ICS stands for internet connection sharing and is used for sharing ... A hacker is someone who is interested in computers. ...
    (comp.security.firewalls)
  • Re: Internet connection broken on server
    ... Configuring the Linksys as a WAP is actually what I was starting to set up ... when the server's internet connection got messed up by the Linksys CD. ... settings in Internet Explorer on the server were also changed by that Linksys ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
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