From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:36:24 -0800 From: Ray Amberg To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: [9fans] Network Configuration Topicbox-Message-UUID: b1a70c44-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi everyone, Thanks again for helping me get the Sis900-based ethernet card working on my machine. I'm sorry to bother again, but I've got a new problem trying to get the machine configured to work on our network. I've read through the Network Configuration wiki, and while I learned a few things, some things still remain cloudy (my networking knowledge is minimal too, apologies). I have a Belkin router, which is located at 10.50.50.1 on the LAN, and whose computers start at 10.50.50.100. There are a couple of other computers, using Windows and Linux, and they are automatically assigned IP addresses when they connect to the router. I think this is another way of saying the router has its own DHCP server. On a query of one of the Windows machines, I found that the Gateway, DHCP Server, and DNS server were all 10.50.50.1, the address of the router. Trying to make sense of the Network configuration wiki, I added the following to my /lib/ndb/local file: ip=10.50.50.104 ipsubmask=255.255.255.0 ipgw=10.50.50.1 dns=10.50.50.1 I manually put in 10.50.50.104, and have a feeling I shouldn't be doing this. In any case, the result was a failure. The plan9 machine can ping itself at 10.50.50.104, but can't ping 10.50.50.1. DNS queries fail with the error: dns: temporary failure. I tried looking through previous 9fans posts for ways to configure a simple connection to a router, unsuccessfully. Would someone be so kind as to help me find a way to get the ethernet card connected to the router, and hence, the internet? Apologies again, I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing. Thanks for your time. Sincerely, Ray Amberg