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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, James Miller wrote:

> I think you've gone about this fundamentally wrong. It sounds like this
> router you've plugged into runs a dhcp server. That's what
>
> > info, Lease of 192.168.1.46 obtained, lease time 86400
>
> means to me, anyway. That means you don't need to ifconfig anything--udhcp
> is doing that for you. I think you took an unecessary step by doing
Yes, this time we did ifconfig and we could not go online, but I did 
udhcpc and it worked.  \




> > then ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1>
This seems to be unnecessary but it did not hurt.
> Adding that address before eth0 gets assigned an address by the router 
> (which is 192,168,1,46, btw) is only going to foul things up. Reboot, 
> run the pcmcia start script, then run udhcpc. That's it. Don't ifconfig 
> anything. Then, you should be able to run httpd from whatever directory 
> and, having made note of the address the router assigned you (like 
> "info, Lease of 192.168.1.46 obtained, lease time 86400"), try accessing 
> that address from the XP machine. The other way to try this is to use 
I tried to access my computer as 192.168.1.1 and got the DSL provider 
instead.  Jim just took over the laptop computer so I can't try using 
httpd.  Maybe next week I can try again.
 >
 the samba client package Steven put together. You can access the XP's
> filesystem that way if you know its IP address. I tested this package 
I was told the IP address for the machine (the friend's name plus a 
number)
> and succeeded transferring to and from an XP machine, so it will work. 
> You'll have to search the archives for particulars though. I posted all 
> my testing info there, but don't remember much of it off the top of my 
> head. You should be able to find fairly comprehensive directions, if you 
> want to go that route rather than the httpd route.
httpd sounds simpler, once I get the correct number. 
> > Ping 192.168.1.46 works, as does pinging my own computer.
>
> You're pinging yourself.
I could also ping 192.168.1.1 - what was I pinging then?
> > I have not been able to use IE to access 192.168.1.1 - it got me to 
> > some other website.

> That's probably the router's admin panel. Usually you can admin these 
> firewall/routers via a web interface. They run a little webserver you 
> have to log into using your web browser to do admin stuff.
It was the name of the DSL provider and something about a profile and 
password.  I don't want to fiddle with someone's DSL connection.

> > To access the DSL line I only needed to plug in the cable between my 
> > laptop and the ethernet hub, /etc/pcmcia/start, ifconfig eth0 
> > 192.168.1.1 (or udhcpc might have been enough), and I was then on the 
> > network just as if I had dialed.

> > > > For the ethernet connection to the DSL modem, we would >use the 
> > > > static IP number of this computer, right?  Is there also some way to 
> > > > do
>
> Most networks run a dhcp server, so forget in general about ifconfig'ing.
> Always try running udhcpc first. If that doesn't get you an address
> assigned from a dhcp server on the network, then try ifconfig'ing.

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