Subject: Re: Packet loss
From: Brian Watson (bcwatso1@uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 16:21:10 MST
>Just trying to ping the router at 192.168.1.1 results in packet
>loss. May I ask a question, do you have other machines on your LAN?
>My PC on the lan is the primary Cable access computer with the
>assigned host name from ATT. I made the assumption that the other
>computers on the lan cannot duplicate this name. My mac can access
>the web and mail as the primary PC with no problem. The YDl box, was
>given a hostname (dcalhoun15) and the domain is home.com the DNS
>servers are there and correct. It seems as if the YDl box wants a
>fully qualified address, ???? Thanks for your reply. I know this
>machine works well on the MAC OS side but I'm determined to get the
>YDL side banging too.
>
My network's down to an airport base station, an HP4050TN, PM 7500,
and the YDL box (6500) behind the Linksys router, since most of my
equipment is at college. However, when all of my equipment is home
add a PC and a G4 to the loop and all work well. By host name do you
mean the DHCP client ID that @Home issues? You don't need to use
that.
This sounds like a DNS problem. For the router, make sure the DNS is
configured correctly. Add proper DNS entries to your router. Have
"Specify an IP address" marks and enter your IP, subnet and router
(default gateway) manually. You can find this information in the
member services area. There's a place where they'll list your IPs
manually, along with a primary and secondary DNS server. I had some
problems with YDL and DHCP, so configure your box manually. You can
do this by typing netconfig as root. The last step is to add the
same DNS information that's stored in your router to /etc/resolv.conf
Here's mine as an example:
nameserver 24.0.108.15
nameserver 24.0.108.17
This should get you resolved and pinging away. Also, you might want
to makre sure that you have the latest firmware in the LInksys
router. Mine used to crash a lot until I upgraded the firmware. HTH.
--Brian
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