Fedora and Qwest
taharka
res00vl8 at alltel.net
Thu May 17 15:02:02 UTC 2007
How do,
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 16:32 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 14:47:59 -0600
> "David G. Miller" <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
>
> > The WAN
> > address of the gateway should be transparent to him. The gateway NATs
> > the 192.168.0.0/24 or /16 addresses (depends on the router) to the WAN
> > address. What you want is the address of the router/gateway.
>
> None of that information seems to be available.
>
> I look after several computers with static IP addresses issued by four
> different ISP's around this continent. I even do contract work for one of those
> ISP's. Every time I ask for a static IP address, I always get this:
>
> IP Address
> Gateway
> Subnet mask
> DNS servers
>
> I tell a router that I have a static IP address, enter those values into the
> fields provided, and plug 'er in and let 'er rip. I have never had to go any
> further than that to get anything online with a static address before.
>
> This time, though, it seems that many pieces of the puzzle are missing and I
> can't get the thing online using the information that Qwest's technical support
> people make available.
>
> Which is what brings me here now. Given that the only information that is
> available for this connection is as follows:
>
> Static IP 63.228.89.116 gateway 192.168.0.1, Sub net 255.255.255.255,NS
> Primary Server 205.171.3.65---Secondary Server205.171.2.65
>
> Does anyone have any idea for what values I would enter into a standard Dlink
> router to get it online? DHCP doesn't work -- even though they said that it
> uses "standard DHCP requests", there is no response whatsoever when I send one.
Questions;
1.) Brand & model number of the Qwest DSL modem?
2.) Model number of the Dlink router?
3.) Exactly where in the U.S. is your client located?
>
> --
> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
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