Help with DSL under mac OS 9.x

I hope someone can help me with this problem I feel like I'm missing
something very obvious but I've never used OS 9 just 8 and X.

I am a production manager at a print shop with 4 original G3 imacs and
a White G4 imac. We also have 2 PC's and a G4 under 10.

Today we installed DSL.

PC's No problem

White imac worked at first
G4 no prob
One original imac also worked at first.

After the first reboot the white imac stopped working
The original imac stopped working after we tried to connect not
realizing the router was unplugged.

The control pannels I checked are

Appletalk set to ethernet
TCP/IP set to DHCP

All passwords etc. are set up in the router.

Router is a Linxsys rebadged by sprint

DSL Provider is sprint/earthlink.

I suspect it's a control pannel/extension problem because it was
working.

Also Our Point of Sale software is working and that runs under TCP/IP
or Appletalk


Any help would be a blessing. I'm about to play toss the iMac from the
rooftop. I would have done so already but I'm sure I'm missing the
obvious


Ray

In article <17f2ce5.0407151328.62e589c DeleteThis @posting.google.com>,
rcrev DeleteThis @yahoo.com (Ray Creveling) wrote:

 > I hope someone can help me with this problem I feel like I'm missing
 > something very obvious but I've never used OS 9 just 8 and X.
 >
 > I am a production manager at a print shop with 4 original G3 imacs and
 > a White G4 imac. We also have 2 PC's and a G4 under 10.
 >
 > Today we installed DSL.
 >
 > PC's No problem
 >
 > White imac worked at first
 > G4 no prob
 > One original imac also worked at first.
 >
 > After the first reboot the white imac stopped working
 > The original imac stopped working after we tried to connect not
 > realizing the router was unplugged.
 >
 > The control pannels I checked are
 >
 > Appletalk set to ethernet
 > TCP/IP set to DHCP
 >
 > All passwords etc. are set up in the router.
 >
 > Router is a Linxsys rebadged by sprint
 >
 > DSL Provider is sprint/earthlink.
 >
 > I suspect it's a control pannel/extension problem because it was
 > working.
 >
 > Also Our Point of Sale software is working and that runs under TCP/IP
 > or Appletalk
 >
 >
 > Any help would be a blessing. I'm about to play toss the iMac from the
 > rooftop. I would have done so already but I'm sure I'm missing the
 > obvious
 >
 >
 > Ray

First try power cycling the router. He is in charge of giving out DHCP
addresses.

In a version of Mac OS X 10.2.something, there was a bug and the clients
would keep requesting new DHCP addresses faster than the router expired
the lease, so eventually all the DHCP addresses were used up and the
leases had not expired, so no new one could be obtained. I think this
was fixed in 10.2.6 (or was it .7 or .8). Panther (10.3) does not have
the problem.

If this is the issue, then switch to giving all the Macs Fixed IP
addresses out side the the range of addresses used for DHCP by the
router. When Mac OS X when though its DHCP problems, I was using fixed
IP addresses at the time, and I never noticed a thing.

And if that doesn't help, you might check for Linksys firmware updates.

Bob Harris<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->