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| Thread ID: 54672 | 2005-02-18 22:34:00 | Slow network response | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 326329 | 2005-02-23 10:37:00 | I had that problem after I installed the IPX protocol for testing something. Uninstalling it fixed the problem. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 326330 | 2005-02-23 10:37:00 | Gibler, explain why? I've never been very clear on this whole subnet mask thing. The general IP addresses are 192.168.0.x with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. What should I have had on the ultra card, (which had IP address 192.168.0.10) and do I need to bother anyway now that it seems to be working with DHCP? And would there be any advantage in giving it a fixed IP address? I was actually about to edit my previous post. I am now thinking what was actually happening was that when I was trying to poll the network, it was polling the ULTRA card as it was identified as part of the network with that IP address, and retrying for ages until it gave up. How does that sound as a throry? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 326331 | 2005-02-24 05:23:00 | You want to use the same netmask on both (well that's how it works with my adsl router). It just sets the range of ip addresses to talk to, in your case basically they will all begin with 192.168.0. DHCP should provide the correct value i.e. 255.255.255.0 and also gateway and dns ip addresses to use. DHCP saves people making "mistakes" (unless you are the one running the DHCP server) - it also avoids ip address conflicts (same ip address used). Then again if your DHCP server goes down you might be unable to renew an ip address. Also on large networks you can have problems with unauthorised DHCP servers being switch on :D Static IP Addresses also mean you know that your IP address won't ever change (with DHCP it depends on how the server is configured). |
gibler (49) | ||
| 326332 | 2005-02-28 00:04:00 | Thanks Gibler - I understand a bit better now (I think). After a conversation with an IHUG help desk guy (filling in time while waiting to reboot), he said the IP address on the Ultra card should be 10.10.10.1/255.255.255.0. |
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