[PLUG] Can't get past my router

William A Morita wamorita at hevanet.com
Mon Oct 20 00:48:56 UTC 2008


Dick,

A quick test would be to turn off your firewall completely in the machine in
question.
If things then work, it means you need to change some firewall settings.
Don't forget to turn it back on.

- Bill Morita 

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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of rsteff at comcast.net
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:44 PM
To: PLUG
Subject: [PLUG] Can't get past my router

I'm sending this from the Comcast web mail interface, using my laptop. At
the clinic today I changed my desktop machine from a static IP address to
DHCP so I could connect from Free Geek. All was well.

When I got home, I changed back to a static IP address. Now, I can't get
past my router. I can ping the router, and I can ping my laptop. I don't
think I changed anything else. The gateway address is the correct one for
the router. To be more accurate, I didn't change back to a static IP address
right away. I didn't think of it at first. However, even with DHCP, I still
couldn't get past my router. I've tried ifconfig eth0 down/up with no
change.

Any ideas on how to tell the machine it's home again?

--
Regards,

Dick Steffens
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