Linksys router setup problem

[Steve Sanyal]

I'm having some problems with my new Linksys 1-port router. I bought this
as a single interface to my cable modem.

I have two systems:

ARCHIMEDES - a laptop running win2k professional with SP1
SOCRATES - a PC running Win NT Workstation 4.0 SP 5

They are both connected to a hub, whose uplink is fed by the router.

After installing the router, the PC hasn't been able to see it at all. The
only thing it has been able to see is my laptop, but I believe it is doing
that through NetBEUI, not TCPIP.

I've tried configuring the PC to use a valid static IP on the router's
network segment, but it doesn't work. Here is something else I have found
quite strange.

After configuring the laptop as a DHCP client to the router, I went to the
router's DHCP server screen and asked it to list the DHCP client table. But
the only DHCP client name I saw listed was SOCRATES (not ARCHIMEDES, as
expected). I veriified that the IP assigned was in fact the one that was
being successfully used by ARCHIMEDES.

I found this quite strange, so I renamed SOCRATES to PROMETHEUS and rebooted
both systems. The DHCP client table still said "SOCRATES" as the lone
client when I did this, even though now there is no computer with this name
on my little network.

I am not sure if that is a red herring or not, but this definitely has left
me quite confused. I am unable to use my PC now to connect to the Internet,
whereas the laptop connects fine.

Oh, as another note -- after I got the laptop to work correctly with the
router, I installed the latest firmware version. However, I have tried
extensive testing like this both before and after the firmware upgrade.

I have even tried to configure both the laptop and the PC to use static IP's
(eg: 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3)... none of this has worked.

I am stumped. Can anyone help me determine what is the problem?

Steve

[Jim Oser]

You should have gotten from your cable company (@home) a host name
like c12345-h.

On your linksys router for host name put:
c123...@marin1.sfba.home.com (Your host will be different but
similar.)

For your domain also put:
marin1.sfba.home.com (Your domain will be different but similar.)

Make sure that your host name is capitalized the same way as on your
sheet from @home.
I know it seems strange but also put @marin1.sfba.home.com in your
host name.

On your clients, put the gateway as 192.168.1.1 or whatever number
that your router is setup with.

Also on your clients configure the DNS numbers and also but in the
domain suffix order on the box below the DNS numbers, such as
marin1.sfba.home.com

Note marin1.sfba.home.com is many characters so check to make sure
everything is there.

This worked for me with Windows 98 and Windows ME machines.

Jim Oser
www.OserConsulting.com
Novato, California

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On 2/17/01, 6:31:59 AM, "Steve Sanyal" <san...@home.com> wrote regarding
Linksys router setup problem:

[Harvey Louzon]

I have the exact same setup. First of all the client table is often out of
date and will not reflect what computers are actually connected to the
network.

Set up the router 192.168.1.1 in the exact same way you would have set up
your computer had it been connected directly to the cable modem. I.e., if
you obtain your IP by DHCP then set it up to reflect that. Put in the Host
and Domain names. If you have a static IP put that in along with your DNS,
gateway etc. Set up each client computer to obtain their IP by DHCP (no
matter if the router has a static or dynamic IP). Disable DNS and remove any
gateways in the client computers. Reboot. Make sure Client for MS networks
and File and Print sharing are bound to NetBUI but not TCP/IP. Your
computers should now be able to see each other in network neighborhood (if
not use the 'find computer' option and it will show up even if network
neighborhood doesn't) and you should be able to surf the net with both
computers.

h

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