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Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:48:24 +0100, Keith (Southend) wrote:


I'm not impressed with Linksys.


Don't blame Linksys, blame doze for not being sensible about it
settings pages. You have to look through at least two different
settings dialogues to get things right and the two bits don't warn
warn you if they have conflicting settings. You can't even use
ifconfig from the the command line as that doesn't tell everything
that needs to know... At least that is my experience of doze and
networking.


I have them both running now Dave. With Demon I have a fixed IP address,
I think I'm right in saying that DHCP does not apply for this.

Main thing I have my benchmark to work from. I have tried a couple of
encryption methods, but as yet they lock me out again. Yes, I have
changed settings on both AP and Notebook. I've run out of time tonight,
but I'm sure I will crack the security bits now that I know it works.

There's more to this than is in the Linksys documentation. Nothing new
there then g

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Keith (Southend) wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote:

==snipped==

There's more to this than is in the Linksys documentation. Nothing new
there then g


Windows in a pain in the a55 for such things sometimes but linksys
routers crop up in the blueyonder help forums all the time. If fixed ip
addresses work for you then fine the dhcp server in the router takes
note that they're allocated...

Les

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www.uksevereweather.org.uk

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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:44:24 +0100, Keith (Southend) wrote:

I have them both running now Dave. With Demon I have a fixed IP
address, I think I'm right in saying that DHCP does not apply for
this.

That is also part of the link between your router and demon. It's not
relevant to the IP address's in your LAN(s). Remember what I said
about machines not having IP address's only interfaces do. There is an
interface at each end of a connection, each interface has it's own IP
address.

You can set things up with static IP's, gateways and DNS info but once
you have more than a small number of machines (3 or 4) any changes
become a right PITA. DHCP removes the need to go around changing each
machines settings manually, it just happens. I run a static LAN here,
it is a pain when ever I have needed to change anything. OK it's not
very often but it's still a pain and if you have machines you don't
use very often you may have forgotten that changes have been made and
waste time trying to figure out why the machine no longer works on the
network...

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