On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 16:10 -0400, RICHARD wrote: > I expected to be re-directed to a startup web page when I tried to use > the browser but that did not happen - nothing happened the first time. I've seen that sort of thing with an ISP: If you get your logon credentials wrong you have no internet access, just their local webserver responding to all queries, with instructions for how you should fix things. However, it only worked with MSIE. It didn't work with Firefox, not even on Windows. I'm guessing some non-standard redirection technique is involved. > I guessed at the gateway and dns and was able to ping them but that > was as far as I could go until I used a route command to specify a > default route to the gateway. I can tell from resolv.conf that dhcp is > specifying the dns (yet I wasn't originally able to surf web pages > unles I specified the ip address). If the gateway doesn't change, you could try specifying such details by hand, and using your own DNS server (if they don't prevent that by blocking the port). But you could still suffer another problem: If they use rapidly changing dynamic IPs, what you had for one moment might be assigned to someone else in a few minutes, and you can't have two different PCs trying to use the same IP concurrently. One thing that springs to mind is that they may have a user jacked into their network that's running its own DHCP server and it's messing up networking for everyone else. If that's the case, you can configure your DHCP client to ignore DHCP servers from other addresses, but you'll have to read the man page about how to do it. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
