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To: TraderAlan who wrote (13589)	7/31/2002 4:55:59 PM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Alan - sorry. I wish we would be back in the good ole time when we had to manually configure and load files on every workstation <ng>. In those days, a non-working LAn was a pure matter of mistyping. IMHO, you'll have to start from scratch and segregate the problems. Have your LAN working with the router (as I understand you already have it installed). Disable all Virus and port checkers. (these could prevent some needed echos, or bock some needed ports for debugging) I know this seems stupid, but 95% of network problems are at the cable level. Recheck if the proper cables (straight or crossed) are on the proper port (up or down) of the router. dslwebserver.com is the best site to follow for the setup. When your LAN works, add your firewalls and other stuff. Then only, try to connect your LAN to the Internet.

To: TraderAlan who wrote (13589)	7/31/2002 6:53:54 PM
From: Echo	Respond to of 14778

Alan, I would be surprised if a recent Linksys cable/dsl router did not have NAT, or wasn't NAT capable. Check the Linksys website, you may be able to download a software upgrade to it. Generally speaking, to get your computers to talk to each other you need to do the following: 1) Enable the router to be the provider of IP adresses on the local network side, i.e. DCHP, sometimes also called other things. 2) Enable all the computers for dynamic addressing, i.e. DHCP. 3) Ensure that all computers are set up for the same workgroup. 4) DO NOT INSTALL THE ISP SUPPLIED PPPoE software. With the above your computers should be able to talk to each other, but not necessarily the internet. Run "ipconfig" from a MSDOS window and verify that they all have IP addresses on the same subnet. Subnet mask should also be the same, usually 255.255.255.0. 5) To access the internet, enable NAT on the router, leaving it wide open so that all ports are accessible. You can narrow down the port range if you wish later after you have the setup working. 6) Set up the router for automatic login and to obtain an IP address from your ISP. This is not the default on the linksys router I have so you have to specifically configure it. This will talk to the DHCP PPPoE function of your ISP. It sounds like you may have done most of this already, but hopefully this list helps. I have a DSL line connected to an Alcatel DSl modem, which is connected to a Linksys router set up for autologin, NAT, DHCP, which is in turn hooked up to a 16 port linksys switch. I have four computers hooked up and absolutely no problem getting them to talk to each other to the internet. Echo