Re: Wireless router recommendation
- From: The Real Doctor <ian.groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 00:44:17 -0700 (PDT)
On 12 May, 16:51, Ian <ian.gro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[1] Happily connects anything, is visible to everything thus connected
and happily passes on DNS lookup requests, but for some machines will
not then allow anything to and from the outside world.
Now solved. A while ago I installed dnsmasq on one of my home machines
as a short term measure to do a network boot of a laptop. I then
deactivated dnsmasq, and thought I had removed it altogether. During
the upgrade process from Ubuntu 8.10 -> 9.04 it was returned to the
list of things to start, so I had two DCHP servers running on the
network, one of which was setting the other PC as default gateway.
I couldn't apt-get remove dnsmasq, because apt-get said it wasn't
installed - though ps could see it running. So I installed it and
removed it, and that did the trick.
Incidentally, I found the problem by booting OS/2 for the first time
in ages to see if the problem would occur in that. It comes with a
very seful DHCP monitor which shows which server the address came
from ... oo-er, I thought, that's not my router.
What puzzles me now, though, is why one laptop /always/ picked up its
settings from the rogue server, whether running Ubuntu, XP or OS/2 and
with internal and external wireless adaptors, while others /always/
picked up their settings from the right server.
Ian
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