route, ping, where's the net? --SOLVED

[Peter King]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 05:59:37PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
 
> Peter> ...the Linksys BEFW11S4 802.11b fw/router connecting the LAN to
> Peter> the Internet.
> 
> Ah.  I have a Linksys (the one without wireless) and I remember seeing
> something perhaps related.  Basically, it seems unpredictable whether
> the DHCP reply from the Linksys specifies itself as the DNS server or
> the upstream DNS.  Maybe it depends on the order in which you connect
> things.  I just got it to a state where it replies with the upstream
> and now will not turn it off for the rest of my life. :-\

I've heard that DHCP can be a bit flakey. But I'm using static IPs, and
it's still flakey!

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