[ubuntu-uk] Very odd router connection problem

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On 14/12/2010 16:26, John Stevenson wrote:
> On 14 December 2010 16:20, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gbplinux at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gbplinux at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The scenario.
>     We have two broadband suppliers to our house - on two separate phone
>     lines, BT, the home supplier and another supplied by the company
>     my wife
>     works for.
>     The router supplied by the company my wife works for is unlimited
>     traffic, the BT is capped at 10GB per month.
>     I have two computers - a Windows 7 laptop and a 10.04 Ubuntu Netbook.
>     The odd thing is this - if I connect to the company router using a
>     cable
>     with the Windows 7 machine, it connects normally and normal internet
>     operations can be done. The NIC is set to DHCP both for ipv4 and ipv6.
>     If however I connect the Netbook via the same cable to the same router
>     using the "Automatic" (DHCP) settings both for ipv4 and ipv6 on eth0
>     there is NO internet access AT ALL! I've tried entering the manual IP
>     data but still NO ACCESS at all!
>     Why should this be and what do people suggest I do to get it to
>     work? (I
>     can't access the router at all....)
>
>
> Hello Gordon,
> I suggest trying without IPV6 enabled, if you have not already done 
> so.  Using the network manager you should be able to set IPV6 to 
> ignore.  Then do a complete restart.
>
> I dont know if this wil fix your problem, but it is the first thing I 
> would try.
>
>

Hi John,
It was set to "ignore" initially and that wouldn't connect either, so 
when I saw that the NIC on the Windows machine was set to DHCP for ipv6, 
I changed it, with still no effect!

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