On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:22:09 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>So the WRT54G is the only switch on your network, and you have an OS/2
>box serving as a bastion server connected to the DSL. This is
>interesting, because with a WRT54G, I would normally put that on the
>outside, and use it as a NAT firewall/router instead of a real computer.
I understand. However, I set up the firewall computer w/ IJFW
quite a few years prior to obtaining the linksys. I considered
that I could change it but why bother? I might get a better
troughput with the linksys than w/ the PIII Compaq (w/ 2 nic's)
that servers as my NAT firewall/router.
>So, I assume that the OS/2 box on the outside has two NICs in it and is
>routing traffic to the net for you. Are you running DNS on this, or is
>the 1.1.1.1 address something else?
No, I'm not running dns, ddns on the linksys. I vaguely recall
that perhaps 1.1.1.1 means to pass through the dns requests to the
next stop upstream. I'm not really sure of this, only that it
works.
>Interesting. The next time you encounter the trouble, try pinging some
>IP addresses on the net. A good one to test is one of GTE's old DNS boxes:
Been there, done that. Ping'd yahoo's IP and got no response.
Also tried nslookup on my isp, & google. That is when I decided I
had either a gateway or dns problem. And when the gateway was
correctly set I figured it was dns. What is really odd is that the
ping only works on the inside. And when I was (and still am)
unable to boot I moved over to xp and it works fine, proving that
there is not a hardware issue.
>I used to routinely keep four or five in my resolv2. excess entries are
>simply ignored. The important lines are the top two (domain and first DNS).
That is what I figured, I just tossed it out for comment in case it
was a no-no.
I just pulled down the v3.07 stuff. I don't know why I couldn't
see those files this morning. Also I was unaware that apm had to
be matched w/ acpi so I need to check and see what version I have
for apm.
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