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skylineGTR_guy

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OK heres the deal I have an Actiontec GT701 DSL modem and a microsoft MN500 wireless base station. I attached a computer running free BSD to it so I can use it as a server. Anyway hears the deal I can ping my modem from my laptop and my computer but not from my machine running BSD :( I configured my DNS but when I go to my url it takes me to my modems main screen that I acess by going to 192.168.0.1 what could be wrong and how can I fix it? I"ve setup port forewarding and all that other stuff but still nothing. Any ideas?
 
Is the Actiontec a router? If so, you will need to set its IP address as the default gateway on the BSD box.
 
GilesGuthrie
Is the Actiontec a router? If so, you will need to set its IP address as the default gateway on the BSD box.
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the actiontec is just a standard DSL modem, It's plugged into my router and so is my server, the MN500 has a built in 4 port router. So either way I'm supposed to make the default gateway on the BSD machine the same number as the IP addy of my router? Ok I'll give it a try :)
 
Yep.

[Basic Explanation bit] A router is so-called because it maintains a connection to the LAN (local area network, i.e. your house), and the WAN (Wide Area Network, i.e. the internet), and it routes traffic accordingly.

Computers see this as a gateway. When you set the IP configuration of a computer, you set its IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.5), the subnet mask (on a private network this will be 255.255.255.0), and the gateway.

What the subnet mask does is it masks (hides) the addresses that are not on the local subnet (your LAN). The number is between 0 and 255, where zero is 'no mask: all variations valid' and 255 is 'no variations valid'. So, in the above example, you're saying that addresses from 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.254 are on the LAN.

The gateway setting tells the machine where to route traffic to that is defined (by the subnet mask) as not being on the LAN. This should always be set to the address of the LAN's router, because if you access a site not on the LAN, you need to route that request to the device that is capable of routing the request outside of the LAN.

Make sense?[/Basic Explanation bit]
 
Ok now I can ping my modem and do NS lookup from my box :D

Now the only problem I'm having is every time I type in my url, my DSL modem screen pops up, I have the modem set up to foreward to the router and the router forewarding to the box but nada. Any ideas?
 

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