Re: Routing Problems

From: Gary Heston (gheston_at_hiwaay.net)
Date: 08/26/04

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    In article <412d1468$1@darkstar>,
    Albion Baucom <baucom@darwin.ucsc.edui> wrote:
    >The IT people on my campus upgraded the routers and my SGI have since
    >stopped communicating with the world. I can communicate with other
    >nearby computers, but nslookup fails on everything, and I can't see
    >outside my subnet. PCs and Linux boxes hooked up to my network switch
    >are fine, and I have tried plugging the SGIs directly into the network
    >port to eliminate a bad cable, or screwy network switch as the culprit.
      [ ... ]
    >There was some talk of a change in subnet mask to open up the address
    >space on campus with the router change, something also to do with WXP
    >machines; from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.254.0. I presume, in hex, this
    >is a change from 0xffffff00 to 0xfffffe00. I tried changing this via the
    >admin GUI in IRIX, but that did not resolve my problem.
      [ ... ]

    Try running IPCONFIG /ALL (NT/2K/XP/2003) or WINIPCFG /ALL (95/99/ME) on
    one of the 'doze boxes to see what config data they're picking up from
    the DHCP servers; verify that your default gateway and subnet mask match
    them.

    Gary

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    Gary Heston  gheston@hiwaay.net 
    Contrary to popular opinion, _not_ everyone loves Raymond.
    

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