network to xp to xp

[Keith Antoine]

On Sunday 20 July 2003 11:21 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Hey Keith-
>
> How does your home network get configured?  Do you use DHCP or is the
> downstairs PC hard-configured?

I have used both automatic DHCP and also manual config.

> The DNS servers that your system uses probably gets dynamically configured
> by your ISP.  You should be able to see that information on your gateway by
> either typing "ipconfig /all" in XP and "cat /etc/resolv.conf" in Linux.

I did find the gateway by ifconfig and put that into the downstairs computer 
nic config, did no good at all.

> If you are hard-coding the network configuration in the XP machine down
> stairs, you should have the DNS servers configured in there (as in,
> actually in the Network Config fields) and they shouldn't vary.  If they
> are hard configured and they are different than your gateway, perhaps the
> DNS servers the XP box is using are having issues.  This could explain why
> the gateway and XP box see different results.

Doing it in auto with or without a floppy disk from the upstairs machine, no 
dns figure appear. I can get one which was 210.49.48.1 and used that, which 
was the gateway my machine sees. No avail still no connection.

> Many other possibilities, but we'll leave it at that for now and see where
> it leads us.
>
> Sorry we haven't been able to help much yet.

Do not be as everything I do eliminates something and that leaves the least 
like thing as the culprit. I do have Mandrake set to security HIGH.

-- 
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161
Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage