Computers and Related Hardware/Software

Oh man, that was painful: I finally got my router working.

Looks like there's a problem with my motherboard's on-board Ethernet interface: it won't automatically assign an IP address, so I had to put in a manual IP address and DNS.

What a pain... Maybe I should disable the on board Ethernet and plug in a Ethernet card.

I'm wiped. :bleh: :sweat:

Flirting with danger: I'm gonna plug in an Ethernet card in my PC and see if the router can automatically assign an IP for that puppy.

:fingerscrossed:

assign the IPs yourself, it'll save you some trouble down the road.

ie..
this computer is 192.168.0.101
my laptop is 192.168.0.102
mom's is 192.168.0.103
sister's laptop 192.168.0.104
bro-in-law is 192.168.0.105

krim wrote:assign the IPs yourself, it'll save you some trouble down the road.

So you're saying having a fixed IP and DNS is better?

Hmm.

if you're running BT or such, then yes, the router should assign you a fixed IP address.

for example..

you port forward (BT ports) to whatever is assigned to you now. 192.168.0.1

next time it's renew the DHCP lease, if you get assigned 192.168.0.4, the port forward will need to be edited.

krim wrote:if you're running BT or such, then yes, the router should assign you a fixed IP address.

for example..

you port forward (BT ports) to whatever is assigned to you now. 192.168.0.1

next time it's renew the DHCP lease, if you get assigned 192.168.0.4, the port forward will need to be edited.

And the downside of having a fixed IP?

you dont get to adjust your port fowarding settings every 6 weeks?

krim wrote:you dont get to adjust your port fowarding settings every 6 weeks?

Drag.

Today's Fry's goodies:

Pioneer 16X burner: $35 after $15 rebate
Maxtor 500GB, 16MB buffer, SATA300, $170, no rebate
Seagate 750GB, 16MB buffer, SATA300, $310, no rebate
Maxtor 300GB, 16MB buffer, PATA133, $80, no rebate

do i need another drive... i could goto Fry's since im not working today. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:Flirting with danger: I'm gonna plug in an Ethernet card in my PC and see if the router can automatically assign an IP for that puppy.

As krim said better to assign fixed private IP address to your pc, otherwise port forwarding won't work.

krim wrote:assign the IPs yourself, it'll save you some trouble down the road.

ie..
this computer is 192.168.0.101
my laptop is 192.168.0.102
mom's is 192.168.0.103
sister's laptop 192.168.0.104
bro-in-law is 192.168.0.105

You want to make sure it's not in the IP range used by the DHCP mechanism on the router. Though it should be smart enough not to assign that address if it's being used, bad things can happen if two machines share an IP address.

For most routers, the DHCP assigns addresses in the 192.168.x.100-150 range, so I would set IP addresses in the x.50-99 range.

i thought it was the other way around.... :headscratch:

oh well.. i think i turned off DHCP anyway..

krim wrote:i thought it was the other way around.... :headscratch:

At least that's the way Linksyses work. I would have to dig up the Netgear one to see how they operate.

krim wrote:
oh well.. i think i turned off DHCP anyway..

I leave mine on, but have assigned my BT machine to a static IP. :victory:

btw. I'm looking at WGR614* manual right now and it says that there's an option to specify a reserved IP address for a computer on the LAN, that computer will always receive the same IP address each time it access the routerfs DHCP server. This may be useful if Beemer insist on receiving an IP address from router via DHCP.

* - a randomly picked netgear router.

checked my config page.. you can set your own DHCP address range.

and all the ones i listed above are reserved.


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Oh Beem, you can set up a dyndns.org account, and make things more complicated for you. There's a setting for that as well. :mrgreen:

Excedrin headache #537. :sweat:

Is there a way to unpack a 6.6GB ISO file to burn to two non-DoubleLayer DVD-R's?

How would you do that?

Thanks.

Hanzo21 wrote:Is there a way to unpack a 6.6GB ISO file to burn to two non-DoubleLayer DVD-R's?

How would you do that?

Thanks.

Try using Daemon Tools (see videohelp.com)... I think it'll let you emulate a CD/DVD disc on your HD so you can rip it's contents.

I've used it to recover a DVD with bad sectors: Rip the ISO using ISObuster, then use Daemon Tools to emulate the DVD and rip the contents... It works! :woot:

bmwracer wrote:
Try using Daemon Tools (see videohelp.com)... I think it'll let you emulate a CD/DVD disc on your HD so you can rip it's contents.

I've used it to recover a DVD with bad sectors: Rip the ISO using ISObuster, then use Daemon Tools to emulate the DVD and rip the contents... It works! :woot:

Right on! Thanks.