[AccessD] OT: network help

Not sure if this message got through before so I will send it again.

Download the manual for DI-704
ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/di704/Manual/di704_manual_082201.pdf

Look on page 19 on how to change the routers (gateways) ip.

Hope this helps.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD-owner at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:AccessD-owner at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:11 AM
To: AccessD
Subject: [AccessD] OT: network help


Guys,

I am having network troubles at my home office.  Here's the situation.

I have a small network running on a dlink DL-704 router.  WWW connection
through my cable, thus a cable modem.  The router is the dhcp server.
Internal addresses were 192.168.0.x with the router being 192.168.0.1.

Understand I am not a network guy so I can spout this stuff but you
should not mistakenly conclude that I understand it.

The problems started when I tried to set up a Remote Access connection
to a client system.  I could get the virtual channel to run but couldn't
get to the "server" on that system which was set (internally to THEIR
network) to 192.168.0.10.  The problem is that their network and mine
were both using 192.168.0.xxx.  The network guy that set everything up
for the client asked me to change my system to 192.168.1.xxx which I
did.  Everything came to a crashing halt on my system, at least in terms
of getting to the internet. In fact weird things would happen like...
some chat clients worked (yahoo and aol), others didn't (msn).

On closer investigation it seems that the default gateway is still set
to 192.168.0.1.  Since everything else is set to 192.168.1.xxx
(including the router - 192.168.1.1) it appears that this default
gateway number is causing havoc.  We could not find where this number is
assigned, IOW how to change it  (default gateway) from 192.168.0.1 to
192.168.1.1.

The "answer" was to go set the TCP/IP properties manually to "use the
following address" instead of "Obtain an IP address automatically".
Once I go in there and set the info manually, including the "default
gateway", everything works.

However this now means that I have to manually configure all of my
computers since when they obtain automatically, they end up with the
default gateway address of 192.168.0.1 which doesn't work.  This is
going to cause problems when I hook up my tivo box which I can't get at
the settings to set manually.

So... the question is, where the hell is this Default Gateway setting
configured.  It seems like it should be part of the router configuration
but I simply cannot find that setting in the router's setup stuff
anywhere.

If anyone can help me with this, it would be much appreciated.  We can
email
(offline) at jcolby at colbyconsulting.com or (preferably) use chat at
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com for MSN, jcolby_c2db for yahoo, or jcolbyC2Db
for AOL.

TIA,

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com


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