Re: [PLUG] Do you feel like you're a Linux dude(tte) in a 'Doze/Mac world?

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

I've used numerous WiFi shops over the last 3/4 years with Ubuntu.  
Generally there
are few issues.   I"ve even had corporate locations where I stayed 
connected all
day on a VPN, and the local users couldn't stay connected for more then 
minutes
due to interference I suspect.

I had one particular hotspot,  where I could get an IP,  DNS and default 
route
from DHCP.    However I could not get DNS resolving to work, and pinging
IP's directly without DNS,  didn't work though the router.  This location
had a Verizon ActionTec router , presumably on FIOS.

Since then I've run into the same problem at other locations.

I then installed Verizon Business FIOS at home,  I found the exact same
problem with ActionTec again.   The tech could connect his Windows 
toughbook and
it worked fine,  but on Ubuntu,  IP,gw was fine,  but no traffic.   Even 
the web
management page of the router failed to come up.

Even telnet to the router ( telnet 192.168.x.1 80 )  and typing  "get / 
HTTP/1.1" failed
to retrieve the router's management login page.

I bypassed the ActionTec router and connected the FIOS ONT directly to my
Endian firewall and all worked fine.

So is there a generic software problem with Verizon's  ActionTec router  ?

How can telnet to port 80 fail to work on Linux, but work correctly under
Windows unless the router protocol is terribly broken.

Are their others that have has issue with the ActionTec/Verizon router 
failing
to work ?

Lee




On 01/16/2011 01:46 PM, Floyd Johnson wrote:
> Afternoon, PLUGgers.
>
> I think this cafe's WiFi apparatus was giving me bum DHCP info. It seems
> to have been set to give nameserver addresses further upstream than the
> router (they were in the 71.242.0 and 71.252.0 blocks)-the router's IP
> being in the good ol' 192.168.1 block. It took me most of an hour to
> figure out how to tell my Ubuntu boxlet the correct way to aim its DNS
> queries right at the router in here (Tuscany Cafe just off Rittenhouse
> Square).
>
> Do you guys find yourselves in similar moments, in which you're flying
> the most sophisticated laptop amongst your fellow cafe patrons, and
> having the worst time of the lot getting online? Or, on the other hand,
> do you feel like hot stuff because you are able to essentially MacGyver
> your machine to solve such problems?
>
>
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