[CLUE-Tech] Wireless problem

[Frank Whiteley]

Quick and dirty answer

Your network is 168.103.xx.0/29, so 168.103.xx.7 is your broadcast address
and not normally routable.  If you are bridged, you might get six usable IPs
out of the subnet block of eight, in most cases five with a routable subnet
via PPPoA or PPPoE.

See this
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/sparkman/netcalc.htm
Plug in your network and look at the third section down.

And this
http://www.j51.com/~sshay/tcpip/ip/ip.htm

There are probably much better links, but this was just quick and dirty.

Try your wireless card as 168.103.xx.6 and see if it doesn't work.

Frank Whiteley
Greeley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis X. Maier" <franx at qwest.net>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:53
Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Wireless problem


> I'm running Yellow Dog Linux 3.01 (basically Red Hat for Macs) on an
> iMac with an Airport (802.11b) card.  The card appears as configured and
> active, but I can't make an internet connection.
>
> Background:  I lease eight static IPs from Qwest.  Five are usable by
> me.  Three are required by the system -- including the IP my Actiontech
> router uses (168.103.XX.6).
>
> I assign 168.103.XX.1 to my Airport Extreme base station, which then
> operates as the gateway for my other computers.
>
> The Xbox and the two Macs on my wireless LAN system work great, manually
> configured with the base station (again, 168.103.XX.1) as their gateway.
>
> My Linux box is the problem.  Note that I do not use WEP.  Here's my
> current /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file:
>
> DEVICE=eth1
> BOOTPROTO=static
> BROADCAST=168.103.XX.7
> IPADDR=168.103.XX.5
> NETMASK=255.255.255.248
> NETWORK=168.103.XX.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> CHANNEL=1
> TYPE=Wireless
> MODE=Auto
> KEY=
> RATE=Auto
> GATEWAY=168.103.XX.1
> ESSID=dannyman1
>
> Can somebody steer me in the right direction?
>
>
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