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Originally posted by bradleylamar
...when i went straight from the cable modem to the nic, but when i stuck the firewall in between i never could get it connected to the internet. it is a linksys firewall and the setup page is 192.168.1.1, when i went into setup everything looked right except it had 2 boxes that it said were required by some ISPs. they were domain server and (i forget exactly what the other one was) ? home server?
Is your hardware firewall set to have a static IP? Most @home providers give out dynamic ips and use DHCP servers. DHCP is a must in order for you to browse the internet (I think it's the default on XP so that's why XP works).