[CLUE-Tech] Wireless problem

[Frank Whiteley]

Disregard, too late in the evening and didn't look closely enough.

Sorry.

Frank

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Whiteley" <techzone at greeleynet.com>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 23:32
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Wireless problem


> 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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