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Old 08-23-2004, 06:36 PM
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NO, don't disable the DHCP on your modem. That provides an IP address
to your linksys router. The router should plug into the modem vian the
"WAN" port. The modem provides an address to the router via DHCP (by
default). Then the router provides private IP addresses via DHCP to
your hosts.

This is of course how a standard setup would work. The router will not
pass DHCP messages from the modem to the hosts without special
configurations, and I don't even think the Linksys line is capable of
doing so.

Do the two nodes that are having the problem ever work, only work
sometimes, or what? Plug one of the known working machines into the
hub, and one of the machines having problems, plug it into the spot
voided by the known good machine (do a swap), see what happens. Then
that will point to the hub being your problem.



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Old 08-24-2004, 12:17 AM
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>The router should plug into the modem vian the "WAN" port.
This is how it is (and has always been).
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>Do the two nodes that are having the problem ever work, only work
>sometimes, or what?

They work for awhile, maybe 2 hrs or so then one or the other will not
be able to see the network unless we turn off and on the router power
and reboot the nodes.
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>Plug one of the known working machines into the hub, and one of the
>machines having problems, plug it into the spot voided by the known
>good machine (do a swap), see what happens. Then that will point to
>the hub being your problem.

Ok but say it is the hub (sometimes) what can I do to fix it?




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