On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 04:12 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2008 16:03:05 -0400, David Mozurkewich wrote:
> I just added a second computer behind my netgear WGR614v4 router. I
> installed Fedora 9. My last install was FC5 so there is much in F9 that
> is unfamiliar to me. To avoid introducing errors, I used all the
> defaults during the installation except disk partitions. After the
> reboot, ifconfig shows eth0 active with the correct IP address
>
> I am probably making a simple mistake but cannot see it. Any
> help/suggestions would be appreciated,
Can your other machines go out?
yes. Swapping wires to and ports on the router as well as removing the
other computers from the network didn't help either.
What happens if you turn off the firewall on the new one?
No effect.
What happens if you configure the network manually
(system-config-network)
and turn off NM?
The problem remains.
Do you have to do something in the router to make it forward the
incoming packets to your pc? Normally you shouldn't have to.
I thought so too. I didn't even consider it as a possibility...
You can try to look at the packets with wireshark and see if you can
figure out what it's waiting for.
I used tcpdump since I didn't have to download it. I don't understand
most of what it told me but there was some weird stuff in there -- like
what appeared to be the router broadcasting a message asking for the
router's address. That sent me into the router's configuration menus.
It's been years since I looked around in there. For some reason, the
"static routes" table had an entry for the address it is assigning to
the new computer. I took that incorrect information out and the network
is working as it should.
Right now, I'm really impressed with Fedora 9. Even with a computer
newer than the OS, it installed and everything works without having
asked me a single, hardware-related question.
Thanks for your help.
Dave