Re: [gentoo-user] Linksys router BEFSR41 loosing internet

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 19 December 2010 10:10:56 Dale wrote:
>
>
>> It's pretty simple tho.  Computer>>  router>>  DSL modem>>  internet.
>>
> Seems to me that the only place you need DHCP is on the DSL side of the
> modem, so that it can request an address from your ISP. If you pay them
> for a static address, that's the one you'll get; otherwise of course
> it'll vary from one occasion to another.
>
> On the inner side of the DSL modem I suggest you fix an address, say
> 192.168.0.1, then 192.168.0.2 on the router's modem interface, then
> 192.168.1.1 on the router's LAN interface. All those with a 24-bit mask
> for simplicity. (I used to use a 29-bit mask, but that only leaves six
> addresses free and it was too restrictive.)
>
> You could run DHCP in the router if you wanted to, to save yourself
> setting manual addresses on your computers, but personally I don't
> bother with DHCP as I prefer to know what address belongs to which
> interface. It's not as though I had hundreds of boxes to keep abreast
> of, after all.
>
>

This was fun.  I tried to set it up the way you explained but apparently 
I ain't to good with this.  Now the router don't work at all and I had 
to hit the reset button on the modem.  I'm glad I could remember the 
password.  :/

OK.  The IP I get from AT&T is set by them and it changes.  I think that 
is dynamic not static.  So, I assume that part of the connection has to 
be DHCP.  Correct?  That was how I left it anyway.

Where does this network idiot go from here?  I think the modem got mad 
when I told it to let the router set the IP between it and the modem.  
The computer seemed to talk to the router just fine but had not internet 
IP address.  It was blank.

Dale

:-)  :-)

P. S.  Going to look for a howto to see if it at least helps me 
understand how this works.