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Re: [LUG] Router problem - maybe not.

 

On 9/6/06, Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> dhclient eth0
>
> [neil@localhost ~]$ /sbin/dhclient eth0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
> Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>
> can't create /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases: Permission denied

Was this run as root? the prompt sugessts that it was run with your
nomal user account "neil" ?

>
> and yes, I can ping to 192.168.1.1
>
> > Do you have web configuration on the router as well? can you log in to
> > this (possibly via the 2nd windows pc) and does it have any diagnostics
> > etc. eg ping. Can you ping back to the address given by ifconfig.
> >

Routers neally always have a web configuration page. If you open a
broswer and goto http://192.168.1.1 (on your network) you should see
the routers page and be asked for a username and password (look in the
router manual or the bottom of the router for defaults)

Then some routers allow you to do network tests etc from their setup web page.

This certainly all looks to be a dhcp problem.


-- 
Robin Cornelius
http://www.byteme.org.uk

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