Need help with Network Card to connect to Internet...

**Harry Kuhman** · 02-02-2006, 01:07 AM

Originally Posted by briancm

Talked to Deltacom and got some other IP's and it works just fine. No need to load driver for NIC and am using on board net card in Dell box. 3COM.

IP = 192.168.1.253
mask = 255.255.255.0
broadcast = 192.168.1.254
GW = 192.168.1.1
Name Server 66.0.214.14

Really???? That 254 makes no sense at all to me at the end of a broadcast address. As I understand it all broadcast addresses must be the last address in their group (as determined by the mask) and with that mask the broadcast address should end in 255 (192.168.1.255). In fact, 192.168.1.254 should be just as valid of a normal IP address as 192.168.1 253.

Now that things are working for you you might want to get ethereal working again and watch the incoming ARP messages and see just what broadcast address the traffic is being sent to.

**briancm** · 02-02-2006, 05:16 PM

I will try that.

Now, I would assume that if I wanted to try and learn about Asterisk (open source pbx) and load it on this machine, I would need to load a version to the harddrive and not use a bootable CD version of Linux. Is that correct or could I set up a partition on the HD to work with this?

If a HD install is needed, do you reccomend any particular version of Liunx? (Fedora for example)

Oh, buy the way, even Deltacom can't explain why I can get away with using the gateway 10.22.11.113 instead of 198.162.1.1 on Windows XP / 98 PC's. They tell me my router (built in to Adtran unit) is the 1.1 and that up stream is their router .113 So, not sure about that unless it is the adtran that is letting me get away with that. ??? But, Linux can't ping the .113 even though Windows can. ???

Thanks for all your help.

**briancm** · 02-03-2006, 05:35 PM

Shows 192.168.1.255 as broadcast address even though I have the Netcard set to 192.168.1.254.

Not sure what is going on with that. ???

Anyway just FYI.

**Harry Kuhman** · 02-03-2006, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by briancm

Shows 192.168.1.255 as broadcast address even though I have the Netcard set to 192.168.1.254.

Not sure what is going on with that. ???

I'm not clear just what shows 192.168.1.255, but that makes much more sense as a broadcast address and I suggest that you use that address if you do manual setups in the future. I see no way a broadcast address could ever be even.

**briancm** · 02-03-2006, 09:24 PM

Just look at the heading. Ethereal is where I got the Broadcast address from.

But, I do agree with your thoughts concerning the broadcast address should end in 255 (i.e. 192.168.1.255 instead of 192.168.1.254)

That is of course based on documentation I have read about this topic (broadcast address)