Netgear WGT624v2 DHCP problem

[Lunarcade]

Netgear is trying to charge me $40 for a phone call that I'm almost certain will not help me, so I'm coming to the almighty forums for help! Anyway, I have several desktops and laptops running wirelessly through my Netgear WGT624v2 router. All can access the internet and each other without problems.

I need to do port forwarding to one desktop and one laptop for a particular internet app, thus a static local IP is required. I have configured the built-in DHCP server to reserve an IP for each machine and have made sure that the MAC addresses entered are correct. My XP Pro desktop receives its address without a problem, but the laptop running Gentoo Linux does not. Side note, the laptop always picks up the first IP in the DHCP scope regardless of whether it is already in use or not, yet continues to access the internet properly except for the app I need of course.

This is an odd problem and I have a feeling it has to do with a buggy router firmware rather than my configuration, but if anyone has seen this before I would be very grateful for any information you could provide. Thanks!

 

[groovin]

is your linux box still using dhcp?

# less /etc/conf.d/net

and see what your eth0 interface is set to. otherwise, do you have iptables on and filtering?

 

[Lunarcade]

conf.d/net shows this as the first uncommented line, which should set eth0 to dhcp default right?
iface_eth0="dhcp"

and portage says i dont currently have iptables installed, thanks for the reply

 

[groovin]

if youre having your router fwd packets that come in on port "x" to ip address "y.y.y.y" then youll need iface_eth0="y.y.y.y".

i think thats what youre asking about... i take youre running some kinda server (web? ftp?) on that gentoo box which is why you need port forwarding done from your single public IP right?

 

[Lunarcade]

Actually I'm trying to get my bittorrent client running on the laptop and it needs ports open to work properly. Your suggestion should work, I'll try it when I get home from work. I would rather let DHCP pick up the right reserved address from the router, but seeing as how that doesn't want to work assigning the address at the laptop seems to be my only choice. Thanks for the suggestion!