Re: don't know router

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

debian wrote:
> Sarge and:
>
> Linux knoppix 2.6.15-1-686 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:27:08 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> The college I work in is strictly M$ only.
>
> When I bring in my notebook (as above) and fire it up I get allocated
> an ip address of 172.16.2.8, by a dhcp server someplace 192.168.2.23.
> (I don't have the exact boot message to hand.)
>
> I can ping 172.16.2.* addresses and 192.168.2.* addresses.  But I
> cannot access the internet.
>
> As I understand it, I need the ip address of a router and then specify
> that as a default gateway.  But the technicians cannot or will not
> give let me have the information.
>
> Is there anything I can do, other than getting another job ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe Mc Cool
>
>   
As a general rule, the DHCP server should feed the gateway address to 
your notebook. I'm not sure you can manually code in the gateway address 
if you're using DHCP, but assuming you can, the easiest way to get the 
address is to go to a machine running Windows and from a Command Prompt 
window, type "ipconfig /all".

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Kent