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

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

On 01/18/2011 01:35 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Lee Marzke<lee@marzke.net>  wrote:
> > Yes,  I did get a DHCP lease , IP,  DNS and Gateway.   But no traffic,  and
> > the
> > management interface of the Actiontec would no respond at all.
> Are you sure about this?  Is the lease including DNS/etc?  It would
> seem very odd for one of these routers to care at all what the host OS
> is, unless you have some really odd DHCP client running.
Yes,   It seemed so unreal to me that I did the telnet to port 80 test 
and that
failed as well.    This was telnet to 192.168.x.x  so DNS wasn't even 
involved.

My laptop is Ubuntu 10.04,  but I do use resolvconf to get DHCP DNS updates
pushed from OpenVPN to work.

However,  I looked at  /etc/resolv.conf and  routes -n  after connecting 
to the
ActionTec and all the values for DNS and GW were correctly pointed to 
the ActionTec.


> When I was migrating my RAID I moved DHCP service over to my actiontec
> router so that at least half of the house would keep running with the
> server down.  I was able to access the internet just fine from my
> android-based phone, and from my Chrome OS netbook.  The later almost
> certainly used fairly standard tools - ChromeOS is relatively close to
> a typical linux distro with regard to the network tools.
>
> Things that might be going wrong:
>
> 1.  Maybe the actiontec isn't actually providing a DNS server, and
> windows somehow falls back on some known server when this happens, or
> whatever server it used last (most resolving DNS servers probably will
> serve up requests for anybody, even if you aren't on the same network
> any longer).  Your linux box might refuse to do DNS if the server is
> not set up.
I thought of that , but why does http://192.168.x.x direct to the actiontec
fail to bring up the login page.   I could ping the Actiontec, but not ping
beyond it.

> 2.  You have a configuration issue that is keeping the DNS settings
> from ending up in resolv.conf.
They were there.  First thing I checked.
> 3.  You're not actually getting a lease for whatever reason.  Maybe it
> ran out of IPs and windows users just coincidentally still have valid
> leases from a previous day or whatever.
Lease was there.
> 4.  The router has one of those gateway webpages/etc and you haven't
> logged in.  Maybe the gateway page uses ActiveX or something
> non-standard making this a pain for you.
That's why I used telnet to port 80 and typed   'get / HTTP/1.1'  which
still failed.

> I'd recommend running the appropriate network tools from the command
> line with debug output turned on (dhcpcd, or whatever).  I think you
> said you're running ubuntu and I'm not sure how their network tools
> are configured, so I can't tell you exactly what to do.  If nothing
> else you can probably just manually set up the interface and see if
> you can get it running (ifconfig, dhcpcd, etc).  Most of those tools
> should not touch any configuration files so a reboot will get you back
> to normal ubuntu full-auto mode or whatever.

BTW,  the day of the installation I called Actiontec, and they said if 
it was provided by Verizon
they don't provide support and to call Verizon,  and of course Verizon 
said it was ActonTec's
problem.

Again, I've solved this for myself by removing the ActionTec,   but I'm 
just concerned that
all these business WiFi hotspots are getting these routers and wondering 
how many
others are having the issues.

I routinely use about 10 different hotspots,  Borders, McDonalds, and 
various resaurants
all without issues except these 3 places with the ActionTec.






> Good luck!
>
> Rich
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