Hello I would like to know how to setup my Linksys Router (BEFW11S4) in Red Hat Linux 9. My question is how do i connect Red Hat to the router. Thanks you in advance. W Muhd Khairul Azim Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

RJ45? Just get some cat5 network cable and plug it in. If your router has a DHCP server enabled then you wont even need to set an IP for your redhat box. Otherwise you will need to find the IP and subnet mask that your router uses....

The Linksys router passes the DNS IP address to your computer. I recommend you set your computer to obtain the IP address automatically (use DHCP). By default, the Linksys router will use a LAN IP of 192.168.1.1 - there is no need to change this. The router is your computer's gateway to the Internet, so if it is requested, you can set your computer's gateway IP address to 192.168.1.1. If you choose to set up your IP address statically, Your subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0. The gateway will not change (it is your router's IP address - 192.168.1.1). Your computer's IP address should be in the 192.168.1.x range where x = any number from 2 through 127 (using a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 IIRC). Ernie [ewilcox@buckeye-express.com] ICQ 41060744 Registered Linux User 247790

"...Your computer's IP address should be in the 192.168.1.x range where x = any number from 2 through 127 (using a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 IIRC)...." 2 through to 254. FYI 192.168.1.255 can be used as a broadcast address, eg: $ ping 192.168.1.255 will get replies from any machine/printer/router that is on your subnet (NB providing that it replies to pings or is not running windoze!). This can be useful for finding new printers and routers on your network when you don't know their address and need to configure them. 192.168.1.0 would be the network ID and is not used for hosts except on the rare occasion by vendors like cisco who choose to disregard the RFC!

Got it working now_Thanks guys ^_^ W Muhd Khairul Azim Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia.