Miami + Ethernet LAN + Gateway + Cable modem

[tonyw]

OK, I've been searching through the archives but I can not find an old thread that discusses the combination.

Has anyone ever used Miami with a LAN and gateway? I can't get it to use the gateway.

The setup:
The Ethernet LAN in the house has one machine working as a gateway to the cable modem. All the Windoze machines in the house + one IMac and two printers use the LAN. The gateway runs IPRoute under MS-DOS.

I have a new Thylacine board in the 4000 with an internal 5-port hub and USB-Ethernet adaptor, now connected to the LAN.

The problem: I can not configure Miami to use the gateway. I have tried several alternative configurations with SANA-2, but whatever I try, Miami insists on changing the gateway IP address back to 255.255.255.0. MiamiInit is quite capable of reading the adaptor (MAC address, etc) and even says it is "online".

Once Miami is "online", I can ping all the other machines on the LAN (including the gateway), and they can all ping me. But any reference to an IP address outside the LAN (like an Internet site address) gets no reply. In fact, it appears to be returned with an error status of -1 (by Miami?). This is what you would expect, since Miami has refused to accept the gateway address.

Any suggestions gratefully received. Please don't tell me to check my DNS entries, I am talking purely numeric IP addys here, haven't started on the DNS yet.

 tony

[tonyw]

The netmask is 255.255.255.0. I type "192.168.1.1" into the gateway address gadget and hit Enter. It stays there in the box, but if you select a different menu window, then go back to "interfaces", it has been changed to 255. etc.

I've managed to get AmiTCP demo version 4.0 up and running, and can see some reasonable Internet speed out of the Amy after all these years. But it's only the demo version. I'm currently trying to get Genesis to configure and run, just to try it.

But I really want to be able to use Miami - after all, I paid for it many years ago and I can't stand the annoy-ware messages from demo AmiTCP  :-x

Someone must have used Miami in this configuration.

tony

[tonyw]

"Just disable DHCP and set everything manually."

Been there, done that. No DHCP anywhere, all static.

tony

[tonyw]

[Grrr] I thought I made it clear that DNS and DHCP don't come into it. I've ONLY been typing in xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx addresses. Local addresses are fine, non-existent local addresses time out, external addresses return -1 error code.

Glaucus, what is your LAN configuration?

Anyway, I've now proved that it's a Miami-only problem. AmiTCP works just fine, so does Genesis. I was hoping that someone has gotten Miami to work in this configuration.

I guess I'll just have to use Genesis alone for the LAN, and keep Miami in a dial-up version for those occasions when only a dial-up will do. That is, if I can get Genesis to go online automatically. I've got used to OSes where the TCP stack is started for you.

tony

[tonyw]

Hi guys, thanks for all the tips. Now for answers:

@Bouncy: yes, the auto-start button was pointed out to me, thanks. Also the auto-close button. But the USB stack takes a minute to come up, so I'll have to run a new script that starts the USB stack, delays for a minute, etc.

@Desmon: yes, it's the same on all other machines, including this PC. All addresses on the LAN are static. Remember, it works with AmiTCP.

@edderkop: It's Miami version 3.2b, 09/11/98, registered. I think I had it before OS3.5 came out. I can't remember the version of the latest Aminet one. I thought my version used MUI, but the GUI box says ClassAct. I'm not sure now which version I'm running. I'll look into it again.

tony