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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:55:09 -0400
From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] LinkSys WRT54G bridge help?

On 10/04/07 04:28 pm, Al Heath thus wrote :
>
> > From Mike Luther's post
> >>  But what isn't often realized, for folks who are using startup
> >> DCHP addressing for the LAN, is that you have to be connected
> >> to SOMETHING which will give you a discrete private address for
> >> the LAN you want to use with Seamonkey BEFORE you can connect
> >> to the router or the bridge!  
>
> One thing that is handy to remember about OS/2 is that it is very easy 
> to open up a command line window and temporarily give yourself a fixed 
> IP address on the subnet you want without messing up your boot up DHCP 
> configuration, or going thru the TCP/IP configuration panels, etc... 
>  Simply release any DHCP address you previously were assigned, stop 
> the monitor and issue some commands to flush things and assign a new 
> IP address for while you are configuring the local hardware boxes... 
> for example, on a 192.168.1.x network on a typical wired port (lan0):
>
> route -fh
> arp -f
> ifconfig lan0 192.168.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
Or just use:

ifconfig lan0 192.168.1.99 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias

And then simply delete the alias when you are done with it:

ifconfig lan0 192.168.1.99 delete

No DHCP release is required prior to this, and no DHCP request is 
necessary after it. Note that this doesn't handle routing issues, only 
getting to the "aliased" local network. I use this all the time for 
configuring routers. It is infinitely easier than on Windows or Linux 
(on Linux mainly because I can never recall the correct syntax...), and 
surely one of the strengths of OS/2's IP stack.

<snip>

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