slackware 9.1 and Belkin router problem

[Doug Sutherland]

 > Talking to another slackware user in radioshack he told me the router 
probably
 > needs to be configured.

Yes, it needs to be set to use DHCP to get its address, and either
a) give out DHCP addresses on the internal LAN, or
b) do IP masquerading, ie make itself 192.168.1.1 and provide a
    network 192.168.1.0

Once that is set up, you can use slackware's netconfig to either
a) set your linux to get its address via DHCP, or
b) set your linux to 192.168.1.2 or some other number in 192.168.1.x

 > links doesn't work well going into the router and the web page on it.

Perhaps you can use CURL to configure the router. I have been able to
use that to congfigure linksys wireless access points.

 > In any case, the router returns 192.168.2.37 which is its firewall address
 > if I do ifconfig eth0 <cr> on the slackware box.

Wait ... if you do infconfig eth0 <cr> and it says 192.168.2.37 then
that is the address of your linux box, not the router. That number is
your local ethernet adapter.

Did you try what I suggested before? Run slackware netconfig and select
use DHCP. Reboot and then try ifconfig eth0 <cr> again, see if it has
an IP adress (obtained from the router).

If in fact that address 192.168.2.37 was the address obtained by DHCP,
then try to ping 192.168.2.1, perhaps that is the router's address.
A router will usually use 1 as its internal network address, and the
other machines on the LAN use 2 through 255.

One way or another you need to find out what the current settings are
for the router. Perhaps someone can help you with that.

   -- Doug