Solved! Static IP Question

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:32 pm

the ol' project from hades continues.

there are 5 static ips available call them 1-5 and then a gateway IP call it 6. they are all sequential. the dwarves in charleston still haven't configured their cisco firewall/router . When I just tried to hook up a regular linksys router to the line, it was showing an IP that was not in the correct range and I could not get to the net?

must be a trick involving the gateway and the static ips that I don't know...

Turns out there was a little problemo on the Comcast side - took 2 techs and a tier2 guy to solve it - they had set up the static IPs in the Richmond Va geographic "container" , which cannot be accessed by Washington D.C. "container"....so it was the old you can't get there from here problem.
The tier2 guy set up new static IPs in the correct "container" and the internet mysteriously appeared!

Networking with the power line adapters was quick and easy.

smb · Post by **smb** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:58 pm

did you try assigning a different DNS address to your computers? (based on the one from your Linksys)

TheSovereign · Post by **TheSovereign** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:01 pm

need more info, is this PPPOE, or is this an actual set of static numbers

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:27 pm

they are real static numbers (business cable line from comcast).

I tried just going straight from the cable modem with 1 computer, no luck.

Tried putting the router in between modem and computer, tried assigning static ip #1, put in DNS servers from comcast, no luck

just had the router set up to hand out local ips as usual. 192.168.1.xxx

thanks