Routing questions

[Zathros]

I'm just beginning to delve into the wonderful world of networking. (So far, I still have some hair left)

We installed a DSL line here at work, and I have my internal lan hooked up to it. Originally, I had a 24/7 dialup line with a Linux firewall.

We now are connected to a Netopia 288k DSl router, which is the default gateway. Upon getting the set up done, I noticed that I cannot log in to my SCo Advanced File and Printer Server managed local domain without having netbuei installed as a protocol. Prior to this we ran exclusivley with TCPIP. Is this because I don't have the route configured correctly somewhere?

Also, I entered the netstat -r command and a lot of "external" routes are showing up on my gateway IP. Excuse my ignorance, but why? (and who is keiko.ebay.com anyway?)

 

[abovebrd]

Did you set up a default route to the Netpoia router.
(You did say it was your default gatway)

route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx being your default gateway.

-Danny

 

[Zathros]

When I issue that command, I get:

add net default: gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: File exists

But netstat -r shows the _default_ route as the old default route to my linux box, which is still on the network. (allthough not playing firewall at the moment)

I had added the route to /etc/gateways before.

 

[abovebrd]

You need to remove the default route before you can specify new one.

look at the route man page for more details

But you need to specify yuor Netopia router as the default gateway to get it working.

-Danny

 

[Zathros]

Ok, did that, thanks for the tip.

But I still have some digging to do. The netowrk still won't recognize the server unless netbui is installed. It does however, allow me to telnet to it now without problems. Just won't log into the windows domain.

 

[abovebrd]

Windows Domain.

Now thats interesting.

Are you using Samba or VisionFS for windows resoloution.



-Danny

 

[Zathros]

I'm using the old SCO Advance file and print server. Im still on SCo 5.02, since upgrading is a major pain. But I know I'll need to soon, and then should be able to move to Visionfs.

Now the SCO box is the Domain server. But the windows machines at this time can't see it for the windows network login without netbuei. But even stranger is, that although it says no domain server found, it maps a network drive i have on the server.

 

[abovebrd]

It Sounds like it may be a windows problem.

You need netbuei installed on the SCo box becasue the windows client are using it. I think thats the default windows network protocal. Do you have tcp/ip conconfigured on each windows machine.

-Danny

 

[Zathros]

Yes, netbuei is installed on the SCo box.

Now prior to adding the router, the network was fine with tcip only on the windows machines. But something about going from a linux firewall to a router has changed that.

I guess it's not so bad to have to go back and add netbuei back on the win boxes. It just seems like I shouldn't have to. I'm going to cal Netopia tomorrow to see if there is a router config I can change.

 

[NightMare]

Thanks very much.
I have found information here that i needed.

Just thought I would let you know.