Home Lan with D-Link DI-604

[Carlos Alberto Alves]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Carlos Alberto Alves wrote:
>> Hi Mikkel!
>> Your idea seems the best, but the router assigns the same address for
>> both machines (I do not know how). I will have to talk to the ISP that
>> owns the router and ask them to do it.
>> I will let you know their answer.
>> TIA,
> Let me make sure I understand what you are saying. The router
> assigns an IP address to machine A aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, and then also
> assigns machine B the sam aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd address? If that is the
> case, then the two machines will never be able to talk to each
> other. For that matter, your should be running into other network
> problems.
> 
> Lets double check this. On the two machines, run:
> 
> /sbin/ifconfig
> 
> The "inet addr:" for lo should be 127.0.0.1 on both machines, but
> should be different for eth0 (or what ever your interface to the
> router is.) If they are the same, then take a look at
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Make sure it is not set
> up for a static IP address. It may have more or less lines, but it
> should look something like this: (HWADDR and DHCP_HOSTNAME for your
> system or missing.)
> 
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> HWADDR=00:02:A5:F4:91:5E
> ONBOOT=yes
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=mikkel
> 
> Mikkel

I took a look at /sbin/ifconfig and, in fact, it says exactly what you 
siad it would (the addresses are not the same). I will try network 
connection tomorrow and let you know the outcome.

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