Re: iburst wireless modem

On 6 Jan 2009, Frank de Bruijn <zuiderduin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <3c755d1950.old_coaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tony Moore <old_coaster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

My understanding is that, since the router uses 196.162,

192.168.

My typo.

it will not be able to communicate with 169.254. Would that be
correct?

Not really. There could be a problem if the 169.254 address was used
as source in the DHCPDISCOVER messages, but according to your previous
post, the RPC continues to use 0.0.0.0 there.

AFter about 40 minutes, frame 561 shows that the RPC was still issuing
'DHCP Discover' messages from 0.0.0.0. The router, 192.168.1.1, does not
appear anywhere in the log.

On the WinXP machine, capture shows that frame 3 is a 'DHCP request'
(not 'DHCP Discover') from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255. Frame 4 is a
'DHCP ACK' from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.100 (the WinXP machine).

This means the DHCP server is free to offer any address it wants and
the client should accept it.

The router is configured to use PPPoE to talk to the modem. DHCP is
enabled for the LAN (and works for the WinXP machine). The wireless
network is disabled. The firewall is enabled, but should not affect the
LAN. Access restrictions do not relate to the LAN but, anyway, they are
disabled.

Is there anything else which I should check?

Tony



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