A new one for you...

[MrWilly]

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

I have been running a Toshiba Cable modem (PCX2200),
through a Linksys Router (BEFSR41),
which connects two laptops running Win98 and Win2K.

Recently, I have been having an bit of trouble connecting the Win98 machine to the internet. I am able to receive mail from my pop3 account with the cable provider.

The interesting part here is the Win98 machine will only open SSL pages. I cannot even get to the router admin page.


From the Win2k machine, everything is fine. Internet works, VPN for work is working fine.

I have released and renewed the IP on the affected machine numerous times, along with resetting the modem and even resetting the router. On the router, I have released and renewed DHCP to no avail.
Also, I have set the Security Zones in Internet Options to their default level. Nothing seems to work.

Any ideas at this point are greatly appreciated.

 

[xyrx]

Try NOT using DHCP for that one win98 machine. Hard-code it with an IP address within the same subnet (If the router IP is 192.168.0.xxx then make the ip address also in the 192.168.0.xxx range). Set the DNS to the router IP address. Then try to ping the router from the DOS prompt.

 

[MrWilly]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I'm not too sure how to set up this router to only use DHCP on one of the PC's...

If I disable DHCP and change the way I connect to the Internet from "Obtain an IP Automatically" To "Static IP", how will that affect the gateway and WAN IP address?

I should have indicated earlier that I can ping the router from DOS (on the 'bad' machine, just cannot open it through a browser.

Any additional thoughts?

 

[smah]

What xyrx is suggesting requires no changes to the router. By default, this router supplies 192.168.1.xxx addresses, so you'd want to use the same range, but not overlap the DHCP addresses that the router assigns. Again by default, this router starts assinging addresses at 192.168.1.100 with a max of 50 clients. So the range that the router uses is 192.168.1.100 - 192.168.1.150. On the '98 machine, go to control panel, network, select your TCP/IP -> network card component, Properties, Specify an IP address. Now, when you specify an IP address on the '98 machine either use the last 3 digits of the address less than 100 or greater than 150 (Don't use 192.168.1.1 because that's the router). The subnet mask will be 255.255.255.0

But, before you do that, I'd try bypassing the router completely. Connect the cable modem directly to the '98 pc and start the pc. Don't run like this for very long, because your pc will be open to the internet, with all of windows security problems available for exploitation. I suspect that you'll have the same problems and if so, that means the cause is something on the '98 machine.