2 wire DSL

[Shannon McMackin]

Joep L. Blom wrote:
> Leonard Chatagnier schreef:
>> --- On Sat, 12/6/08, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: 2 wire DSL
>>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>> Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 8:25 AM
>>> To make sure I was accurate I connected to my DSL router
>>> made by 
>>> Actiontec with Firefox. On my system I use
>>> "http://192.168.0.1" and that 
>>> gets me connected to the router.
>>>
>>>     I went to the Main page and discovered that my current
>>> IP address is:
>>>
>>> 216.31.109.146
>>>
>>> and my Gateway is
>>>
>>> 216.31.108.1
>>>
>>> and the LAN is 192.168.0.1 as the local Gateway.
>>>
>>>     The LAN has 4 ports and I am using just 2 of them.
>>>
>>>
>>>     I then opened a terminal and typed ping 216.31.108.1
>>>
>>> and it was perfect. Then I pinged 192.168.0.1 and that was
>>> perfect.
>>>
>>>
>>>     The fellow having a problem pinging his DSL must need
>>> to check what 
>>> his REAL ip numbers are and then try to ping those :-)
>>>
>>>     It it is working then the ping has to work too.
>>>
>> Thank you Karl so much.  But if you read my posts closely you will see that I can't connect to my router as you did in your first sentence.  I get an error message saying: 
>> Unable to connect         
>>
>> Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 192.168.1.254.
>>
>> Once I get past that problem, I wont have a problem.
>> Leonard Chatagnier
>> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>>
>>
> Leonard,
> normally addresses in the 193.168 range are from a local net and not the 
> internet. If you don't have a webserver running on 192.168.1.254, 
> firefox cannot connect.
> what gives "ps -ef|grep apache" on the system with ip-address 192.168.1.254?
> Joep
> 
> 
> 
Isn't .254 a broadcast IP?  That's what I seem to recall from my days 
staging equipment.

I would try to set the router IP to something on the bottom end of the 
subnet.  Not necessarily .1, but maybe at the top end of the number of 
machines you might ever have on the network.

Maybe .100 would be a better choice.