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   gazzafield to Edmund   
   Re: Broadband through a router   
   21 Mar 06 15:43:54   
   
   From: rufty_tufty_hoolythug@nospam.thankyou.says_I.ko   
      
   On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:28:28 +0000, Edmund wrote:   
      
   > In message ,   
   > gazzafield wrote:   
   >> I have just installed BeOS5 Max Edition at home having not used BeOS for a   
   >> number of years and fancied a look at it again.   
   >>   
   >> It has correctly found my network card and it has picked up an IP address   
   >> from my router and has used the routers IP address as the gateway which   
   >> seems correct to me.   
   >>   
   >> I have set my browser to direct connection to the internet.   
   >>   
   >> I have also entered the DNS server IP's of my ISP and I am just unable to   
   >> get anything from the web.  What am I missing or what do I need to   
   >> configure?   
   >   
   > If DHCP is working and you get an IP, gateway, subnetmask, then you should   
   > be getting a DNS too.   
   > No need for manual input.   
   > I checked here and the first DNS is one from the ISP, the second   
   > is the gateway!   
      
      
      
   If I don't set mine manually it puts the gateway in as the primary DNS.   
   Either way it doesn't work.  Me no understand.   
      
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