Re: pulling my hair out with this "Static IP" setup

Sir:

riceguy wrote:
Rebuilding a OS/2 box that needs to have a static IP on my local lan.
Did this 5 years ago and didn't write down all the in's and out's now
that computer crashed - damn!

So, this is what I have - Cable modem / firewall / Lan

All other PC's work fine with static IP's on lan

This OS/2 box can ping the DGW on the FW and ISP fine but nothing shows
up on a web browser.
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SETUP.CMD shows this

route -fh
arp -f
inconfig lo 127.0.0.1
ifconfig Lan0 192.168.1.35 netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu 1492
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
route add default 192.168.1.1
route add -net 68.87.66.196 192.168.1.1 hopcount 1
ipgate off

The route add net is not needed on a box that is inside on a LAN that
has a router connected to the ISP. You said firewall, so I am assuming
that the firewall is hosted on a router. It will be removed when you
fix the TCPIP configuration notebook below.
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TCPIP Notebooks settings

Lan0
basic tab - IP 192.168.1.55 / 255.255.255.0
advanced 1 tab - broadcast "blank"
destination "blank" (when I place ISP address in here or DGW the os/2
box boots up with an error stating host is unreachable after NIC drivers
loaded)

metric count 0
MTU 1492

This IP is different than what is in setup.cmd (typo?). Make them
agree. You already have the loopback interface enabled, good leave it
enabled.
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Routing tab

route type net
destination address 68.87.66.196
router 192.168.1.1
metric count 1
subnet mask 255.255.255.0

DO away with this. You already have a default route that is right.
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host names tab

name servers addresses

68.87.85.98
68.87.69.146

You can use these or the DNS proxy that is in the router (try
192.168.1.1 here). The router is Dynamically configured by the ISP and
these addresses can change.
local domain name

hsd1.nm.comcast.net

IF you truly have a router on your LAN, then the Domain name here can be
anything you like, not what the ISP assigned to you (this name is for
the router's ISP side).
this computer name

os2

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To show it is not a hardware problem, I bypassed the FW and went DHCP
and the browser works fine but can't leave it DHCP because of too many
file servers on lan with static IP's

Any help would be more that appreciated

Warp ver 4.52 on a IBM Netvista box fyi


I assumed that you have a router in the loop as most of your
configuration says so. If I am wrong, then what I suggest will need to
be changed. Also, you will need this statement added to config.sys due
to a bug:'SET hostid=localhost'.

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Bill
Thanks a Million!
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