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Re: Woody and cable modem router



On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:09:44AM -0500, james martinez wrote:
| Ok I just got a cable modem router for Christmas so I can share the broadband 
| connection with all the pc's in my house. One thing that I am having a 
| problem with is when my Woody box is plugged into the router it can not find 
| my ISP's mailserver.  Can anyone make some suggestions of what to look at to 
| fix this. I am using Kmail as my e-mail client.

Trying 'host' and 'traceroute' to see what the IP address of the mail
server is and how far the connection to it gets.  Since you have a
broadband connection you could just setup exim to deliver mail
directly and then you won't need your ISP's mail server.

-D

-- 

A violent man entices his neighbor
and leads him down a path that is not good.
        Proverbs 16:29



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