Can't Navigate My LAN Or Ping

[NoOp]

On 12/06/2008 06:37 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Sat, 12/6/08, NoOp

>> OK, so I'm a little confused (not unusual):
>> 
>> 1. The IWM (Intrepid Wireless Machine - I am too lazy to
>> keep typing the
>> full identifier - hence using 'IWM' previously) is
>> actually your Gutsy
>> Wireless Machine (GWM) and it's working with a fixed IP
>> of 192.168.1.2
>> when connected to the 2wire. Both ifconfig and iwconfig
>> show that IP
>> address on your GWM.
>> 
> Either a little confused or too much vino and BBQ-:))

There is no call for that comment here. However, just so you know, I've
switched back to single malt scotch for the holiday season & the BBQ is
off for the night as I'm cooking filet mignon tonight. Eat your heart
out you old hay farmer.

> Lazy, wait til you get to be 71 and you'll know lazy intimately
> yeah, my GWM is my GWM sitting in a room away from the
> router with no wired connection on it now.  Karl may be right
> that the router has to have a wired connection for the wireless
> to access the router.  Do you reckon that?

Could very well be. Given your back problems, if you have a phone jack
in the room where the GWM is, unplug the 2wire, move it to that room,
fire it up and plug the gutsy machine in directly to one of the 4
ethernet ports & see what you get. That is easier than trying to move
the gutsy machine. If you still cannot connect to the 2wire menu then a
factory reset might be in order... after all you trusted an AT&T tech to
help you troubleshoot earlier, so who knows what the two of you may have
screwed up in the process :-)
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> 
> & power the 2wire off/on as instructed
>> previously so that it
>> clears it's DHCP tables. Reconnect using the GWM and
>> check the IP
>> address that the device issues. Post back with the address.
>>
> Ah, you always use term I'm not sure of.  I guess you mean to
> renew the lease but forget how as I never renew manually.
> You could also mean reboot but you didn't say that and I
> don't think that renews the lease.  I'll look at your last 2 replies
> but don't remember anything about "instructed previously.

The 2wire DHCP route tables will be cleared following the power off.
What that means is that the router keeps tables for each MAC address
(machine) that it has issued a DHCP IP to. You want to clear those so
that when you reconnect it will issue new IP's.

>  
>> If the DHCP address is in the 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.63
>> (reserved
>> static IP) range then your 2Wire has been set back to
>> it's default and
>> is again issuing DHCP for the full 192.168.1.1 -
>> 192.168.1.253 range.
>> 
>> 
> Now I don't understand that at all.  I would expect to be in the
> 192.168.1.60 range and up.  

No. Static was set to 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.63 previously. If the
router, following you and the AT&T tech's messing around with it, was
reset, then the router may be issuing DHCP IP's in the full 192.168.1.1
- 192.168.1.253 range again. So just post the IP that the router gives
you when you reconnect.