router config help

vortmax

vortmax

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I'm attempting to set up an isolated intranet. As in computers networked together with no access to the internet.

I have a windows 2000 box I want to run as a remote server plugged directly into the router. I will access the nework with my laptop via wireless. so with the laptop connected, it will be a 2 computer intranet. Unfortunatly I can't get the network to work. Windows 2000 is being a pain.

Right now I have the router with my cable modem plugged into the WAN port, cat 5 running from the router to the computer, and my laptop hooked up wirelessly. My laptop is accessing the router and the internet through the router just fine. The windows 2000 box says the network cable is unplugged even though the network card and router show activity. Plugging the cable modem straight into the network card and the system detects the connection.

Any ideas? is the router just toast?
 
I dont know if the router is toast, or just confused. On the win2000 machine go start>run>type cmd> type ipconfig.. What ip does the computer report back to you? Is it in the format 192, or the 168 format? or the 127, or 0.0.0?
If it is the 192 or 168 type the router does see and assign the LOCAL ip to that maching.. it is getting the signal.

Make sure if you have another ethernet card/wireless card installed on the machine.. Disable it.. This might be the cord is unplugged error your getting.


Also make sure your not using a cross over cable.
 
the machine has one network card which works just fine when the cable modem is plugged straight into it.

ipconfig gives me a "media status..........: cable disconnected" error, altho the link lights on the card and router still flash.

I tried the DHCP settings at first, but when that didn't work, I set it manually. I have the computer IP set to the same IP as the router except for the last digits. so the router is xxx.xxx.x.1 and the computer is xxx.xxx.x.15 I have the DNS and Gateway on the computer set to the router's IP and the subnet to 255.255.255.0


i just plugged it into my windows XP box. When I configure it EXACTLY like the 2000 box, it works just fine. wtf?
 
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You should not manually assign the IP in the computer network connection properties.. If you want the pc to always have the same IP you can link the mac address to the loacl ip.. Try removing the assigned ip and subnet from the tcp/ip properties.. Then reconnecting... ipconfig again.. make sure if you are not using that other card it is disabled, until you get this error fixed..
 
there is only one card.

i set the ip manually because DHCP wasn't working and the router is very specific about what range of IP's it needs. My laptop managed to connect to the wireless port using DHCP just fine. I could only manage to get my other XP box to work when I manually configured the settings to the exact specs as i'm setting in the windows 2000 box
 
vortmax said:
there is only one card.

i set the ip manually because DHCP wasn't working and the router is very specific about what range of IP's it needs. My laptop managed to connect to the wireless port using DHCP just fine. I could only manage to get my other XP box to work when I manually configured the settings to the exact specs as i'm setting in the windows 2000 box
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Winxp and win2000 are totally different OS's. Win2k has a lot more user right/restrictions applied to networking. You may be running into this type of error. Has it worked in the past.. with the router?
 
this is the first time i tried it. I just find it strange that 2000 still claims the cord is unplugged. it won't even recognize anything is plugged into it
 
Have you used this cord before? Try using the cord on your laptop... It may be a cross over cable (used to go between your modem and router, or a direct computer connection)
 
i've tried 3 different cords. I'm currently using the cord that worked when linking the modem to the computer. So the cord is good.

When I link the cord to the laptop, it does the same thing as when plugging it into my XP PC. Limited connectivity until I manually configure it, then it works like a champ.
 
Did you try using another port on the router? Use port 2 instead of port 1.. Also make sure you dont have any restrictions in the router blocking the mac address, or filtering the mac address of your win2k machine. That will defintely block it.
 
yep, tried all 3 ports. None work on the win2k box, all work on the XP box. I even reset the router to default settings and made sure there were no restrictions or filtering and that the settings i was using were withing spec.
 
Is the IP address which you are trying to assign the computer to (within the win2k machine) inside the allocation range alloted by the router??

For example you requested a ip of 192.168.2.74
Yet your router only can assign ip's from 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.2.70??
 
indeed it is.

I even made sure to use the EXACT settings on the XP box that I did on the 2000 box. So if the IP, DNS, Gateway or subnet were wrong, then the XP box wouldn't be able to connect either.

I did look up the range in the router too just to be sure.
 
Ok thi is the way I am trying to diagnose the problem.. Let me run it by you.

1. Cord is plugged in, yet the computer still shows "a network cable is unplugged"
2. The lights on the network car ARE blinking green, and NOT RED/ORANGE..
3. When you type ipconfig you see "media disconnected"
This is going to sound like a answer, but I cannot come up with opther ideas...
Answer1: The computer is not able to send/receive the ip address due to conflict, bad connection. This could be a bad router or an incorect setting in the pc/router.
The cord is fine
The rotuer is fine to the winxp machine (wireless and ethernet cord)

This leads me to believe that there is a setting in the win2k machine which is causing this. Domain or subnet settings?

A few more questions:
Does the router show the mac address of the computer in the list of connected computers?

Did you assign a bad subnet, or domain to the pc?

Especially check the DOMAIN! Win2k and winxp PRO allow you to assign this.
 
1: yes

2:There are 2 lights. The 100 light is flashing, showing it is functioning at 100 mbps. The data transfer light on the card is not flashing. On the router, the lights are flashing indicating it is sending and recieving data.

3: yes

i thought you might have had something with the domain settings. This is a FRESH install of windows and for some reason it negelected the fact I told I was part of a work group and not a domain. So I changed that back over, but it still doesn't work.

I'm almost ready just to throw XP on it and let it run slow.

thanks for your help
 
You might need to restart the computer with the change of the domain... Do you still get media disconnected? Under the device manager do you have any yellow explanation marks or red X's?

Other than that I cant think of anything.
 
yea...it's windows 2000 so i have to restart after every change and no nothing is showing up as not installed right.

I'm just gonna ask the network admin at school tomorrow and see what he says
 
i figured it out. There is an incompatability with the router and network card that doesn't let the card autodetect the speed. I had to go in and tell the network card to run at 10Mbps full duplex. Once I did that, it started working
 
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