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> I have a small network with several windows workstations and 2 linux boxes.
> Samba runs on 1 linux machine to provide file services for all windows
> machines.  I was using an old machine with Gateway Guardian to connect to a
> cable modem which was my internet access through my local cable company
> (Comcast).  Life was good!  Then, Comcast changed to dynamically assigned their
> Domain Name Service.  The freeware version of Gateway Guardian would not
> support this and I did not want to fork out the bucks to buy the most recent
> version.  So, I now have a Linksys BEFSR41 router with a 4 port switch.  It
> works to the extent that all machines can access the internet.  But, the LAN
> side has many problems.  No matter how I configure the Linksys, whether as a
> DHCP server for the LAN or fixed IP, I don't have full features.
> With DHCP:
> - While the Linksys shows the host name with the assigned IP address and MAC
> address, using the host name to ping, telnet and map samba drives fails.
> - All machines can access the internet
> - Using the assigned IP address, the initial connect to telnet into either of
> the Linux boxes is very slow, say, 30 seconds.
> Using fixed IP:
> - Very little works, the windows machines intermittently can connect to the
> Linksys setup window.  But, no connection
> - I assume that I use the IP address of the Linksys as the gateway and DNS.  It
> doesn't seem to get me anywhere.
> Neither really works for me.  Can anyone give me some direction to solve these
> problems.  Thanks for reading this.

>   I wish I could help you John but I have almost the same problem. I have
>   been
> running for about a year and a half using the Linksys BEFSR41 and all was
> fine. The other day I exchanged the Terayon modem with a Toshiba PCX2000
> at the request of my provider (Cox Communications) and now my internal
> access is messed up. I get a strange delay anytime I do something to an
> internal (192.168.1.1xx) address. My public Internet access is fine,
> better than ever, only the internal side is screwed up. I can see, using
> tcpdump, that the router is asking the Cox nameservers for stuff, is it
> supposed to do that on an internal access? Even runing the "route" command
> does this. The delay is so bad my winblows box won't even connect anymore.
> My 405 PowerPC embedded board gets and boots its kernel okay but has a
> hard time mounting the filesystem. All of this worked great before
> changing modems.

>   So, does anyone have any ideas? I am stumped, and I have asked a lot of
>   people
> about this. An email sent to Linksys about a week ago has been ignored so
> far. Oh, I reflashed to the latest code but it didn't help anything.

> Jim Lewis

>> I have a small network with several windows workstations and 2 linux
>> boxes. Samba runs on 1 linux machine to provide file services for all
>> windows
>> machines.  I was using an old machine with Gateway Guardian to connect to
>> a cable modem which was my internet access through my local cable company
>> (Comcast).  Life was good!  Then, Comcast changed to dynamically assigned
>> their
>> Domain Name Service.  The freeware version of Gateway Guardian would not
>> support this and I did not want to fork out the bucks to buy the most
>> recent
>> version.  So, I now have a Linksys BEFSR41 router with a 4 port switch.
>> It
>> works to the extent that all machines can access the internet.  But, the
>> LAN
>> side has many problems.  No matter how I configure the Linksys, whether
>> as a DHCP server for the LAN or fixed IP, I don't have full features.
>> With DHCP:
>> - While the Linksys shows the host name with the assigned IP address and
>> MAC address, using the host name to ping, telnet and map samba drives
>> fails. - All machines can access the internet
>> - Using the assigned IP address, the initial connect to telnet into
>> either of the Linux boxes is very slow, say, 30 seconds.
>> Using fixed IP:
>> - Very little works, the windows machines intermittently can connect to
>> the
>> Linksys setup window.  But, no connection
>> - I assume that I use the IP address of the Linksys as the gateway and
>> DNS.  It doesn't seem to get me anywhere.
>> Neither really works for me.  Can anyone give me some direction to solve
>> these
>> problems.  Thanks for reading this.