Debian and Blue Linksys DSL switch

Earlier in a post in this newsgroup it was suggested
that one should not use dhcp with these blue
Linksys DSL switches. One should limit the
IP addresses available on the Linksys dhcp server
and use the addresses not available as static
addresses.

So I ran the command
apt-get remove dhcp-client

And then I could no longer connect to the internet.
I tried various methods to get an internet connection
going at this point. After reboot Debian no longer set
up eth0, so I had to do this manually with ifconfig.

This would allow my internel network to work
properly but still no connection to the internet.
The route add command would not work, and the
command netstat -rn showed that I had no routing
tables.

Finally, I gave up and ran the command

apt-get install dhcp-client

which thankfully worked with no connection to the
internet and I was up and running again.

Does one need to use dhcp with one of these Linksys
Blue boxes?

If not, how do you get to the internet without it?






Tom

"Tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Earlier in a post in this newsgroup it was suggested
>that one should not use dhcp with these blue
>Linksys DSL switches. One should limit the
>IP addresses available on the Linksys dhcp server
>and use the addresses not available as static
>addresses.

I didn't see this initial post so I don't know why this was suggested.

What model of Linksys are you using?
Are you accessing it through any other operating system, such as MS
Windows ... successfully?

>So I ran the command
>apt-get remove dhcp-client
>
>And then I could no longer connect to the internet.
>I tried various methods to get an internet connection
>going at this point. After reboot Debian no longer set
>up eth0, so I had to do this manually with ifconfig.
>
>This would allow my internel network to work
>properly but still no connection to the internet.
>The route add command would not work, and the
>command netstat -rn showed that I had no routing
>tables.
>
>Finally, I gave up and ran the command
>
>apt-get install dhcp-client
>
>which thankfully worked with no connection to the
>internet and I was up and running again.
>
>Does one need to use dhcp with one of these Linksys
>Blue boxes?
>
>If not, how do you get to the internet without it?

My opinion would be that if you can't get on the internet through the
Linksys WITH DHCP enabled you also will NOT be able to get on the
internet without DHCP either. If you are not using any other
computers on this Linksys successfully my suggestion would be that
there is a configuration error or connection problem with the Linksys
itself.

If you provide a little more information such as I asked above and a
little background on your configuration and what you are trying to do
someone with that particular model may be able to help out.

I have both a Linksys WRT54G (wireless G) and a BEFW11S4 (wireless B)
router that I use without the builtin DHCP or Router functions (making
them basically a wireless hub/access-point) as I run my own Linux DHCP
server and firewall on my home network and so don't want to add in the
Linksys ones as well. I just wanted the Linksys routers to give me
wireless capability.

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