[Novalug] basic questions about our router and dsl

Roger Broseus RogerB@Bronord.com
Sat Sep 20 10:24:15 EDT 2014


Bonnie,

On my actionec router I am able to set fixed I.p. addresses for various devices. The settings are deep in advanced configuration. Google for fixed or asing ip with your router's name. I can also limit connections to specific MAC addresses, for security, but eggperts say that gains are illusory as hackers can easily get around that.

On my Droids, I use ezNetScan to see what is connected to my network.
-- 
Roger Broseus
www.bronord.com
(This email was composed on a tablet PC. Pease excuse predictive-text induced tiepos.)

On September 19, 2014 11:25:05 PM EDT, Bonnie Dalzell via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>
>lately the internet has been erratically very slow.
>
>web pages take forever to load, round trip pings to qis.net are 180 
>seconds, sometimes there is 50% packet loss.
>
>yesterday evening I could not complete logging in via Alpine to my
>e-mail.
>
>things are better today, thus i can write an e-mail to the list.
>
>we have dsl over verizon copper but it is purchased through QIS.net
>
>i have been speaking tech help at QIS.net and one suggestion was that
>one 
>of the devices on our router might be infected with a virus.
>
>my linux computer is directly hardwired by an ethernet cable to the 
>router. the other three ports are as follows.
>
>one ethernet cable to my husband's apple air port which is used for all
>
>the devices that are wireless in the house.
>
>one ethernet cable to the dish network controller.
>
>one ethernet cable to the interface for our solar panels
>
>we have a zhone router and when I log into it via a browser the DHCP
>info 
>lists # numbers of devices connecting to it at different times.
>
>we have a collection of iphones, mac ipads, a mac book pro, a windows 
>laptop and a windows desktop that access the router in a two step (1)
>via 
>wireless through the airport and then (2) the ethernet cable from the 
>airport. then there is a printer and a set of speakers that also use
>the 
>wireless.
>
>my husband does not want to use the zhone router's wireless capability 
>because he believes that the airport is necessary to create the 
>communication and synchronization between all his mac devices.
>
>when we have been having the slow down episodes I have had to
>physically 
>unplug the zhone router from its power cord, then wait a minute or so 
>then plug it back in. of course when this happens many of the assigned 
>IP address numbers get reassigned but the MAC addresses seem to be 
>constant.
>
>I have a little cgi program i run via a browser on my linux machine
>which 
>allows people to update reservations for the boarding kennel. However
>to 
>log into it from a browser on a different machine you need the
>ipaddress 
>of the linux machine. this keeps getting reset with the rebooting of
>the 
>browser.
>
>is there a way the MAC address can be used to identify the different 
>machines.
>
>also there are two devices listed by dhcp which do not have names.
>
>sometimes different devices appear at different times on the list.
>
>my husband has a gui program called "ipscanner" on the mac which gives
>a 
>lot of details (like manufacturer of devices) which my zhone router
>page 
>does not give.
>
>is there something similar for linux?
>
>
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