Re: [cobalt-users] Cube2 Out of the box(Newbie)

[Parker Morse <morse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 11:00  PM, DAILY3200@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Bought a used cube to set up on home network. I have some Knowledge
> with peer to peer, setting up network at office. Cube boots and gets an IP
> address but I can't get to it from my computer. When I type the address
> my browser connects to the internet(AOL). TCP-IP is installed but has
> no settings. I searched the archives, read the book and looked on the net.
> Any Help would be appreciated.

What Tim said for the step-by-step. Apologies for hashing this out in what 
is probably painful detail for most, but in the name of understanding what'
s going on... your Qube2 has two IP addresses. One is its "real" IP for 
the internet (also called WAN, the Wide Area Network), which it gets from 
your ISP. The other one is a subnet address, which is its address on the 
little mini-IP-net you've set up with your hub/router, Qube and PC (the 
LAN, Local Area Network). If you try to connect to the WAN address from 
your PC, your PC tries to connect to the internet via AOL because that's 
the route it knows. If your PC is set up to get its IP information from 
the LAN, and uses the LAN address to connect to the Qube, it won't go out 
to the internet first.

And if you follow Tim's step-by-step, it should work that way.

pjm