[Imc-tech] Re: Imc-tech digest, Vol 1 #65 - 3 msgs

[Zachary C.Miller]

> Zach, are there some tips or hints you could give for getting the damn 
> thing on the network?

DHCP is a mystery that I have not yet learned the details of. Windows
networking is even more mysterious to me.

The standard questions for networking problems:

Is the link light on on the ethernet card?
Can you telnet to the router?
Can the web browser connect to IP addresses like http://64.5.70.195?

Ideas:

Perhaps the router has given out all 5 of its IP leases (do you have 5
other machines on the net now) and so it can't give any addresses away
to the new machine until those leases expire. I don't know what the
expiration time on leases is set to. I don't know how to query or
change it.

Factoring out that silly router by having a linux box acting as our
masquerade server will make my ability to debug _WAY_ easier. I get a
headache at the prospect of debugging a network problem without a
linux box _somewhere_ on the network. I'm just not familiar enough
with the debugging tools available on windows compared to my vast
knowledge of linux networking internals that I can use to track down
most problems.

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