Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 not seen by router

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 06 March 2003 19:36, CSO Andrew Witham 526 wrote:
> I have three connections to the router, a Dell P4 PC, a Dell 802.11
> wireless router providing connectivity to several laptops and PDAs, and a
> Sun RAQ2 appliance web server.  I have good internet connection to the PC
> and the wireless network.
>
> The router was configured by Frontier to map my public IP 65.73.29.170 to
> the manually set private IP on the RAQ2 192.168.254.4.  The link light on
> the RAQ2 is lit, and the TX/RX light flickers indicating network traffic.
> The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 and the gateway is 192.168.254.254 (which
> is the router's IP address)
>
> After setting the gateway on the RAQ2 to 192.168.254.254 and saving it, the
> RAQ2 reboots and the gateway setting reverts to 010.000.000.001
>
> Frontier says that the router (Efficient Networks 5861) does not see the
> RAQ2 connected.  They do not provide me with the router admin password.
>
> Can you advise what the problem might be?  Does the gateway IP address not
> save for a 'validity' reason?
>

Try a netmask of 255.255.0.0
See what happens

Gerald
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