[Coco] The Strangest thing just happened?!?

[Kip Koon]

Mike,
Oh really!  I was trying to get a new USB 2.0 to Ethernet cable to access
the Ethernet through my laptop so when I'm out somewhere at a WiFi Hot Spot,
I can plug up any kind of Ethernet  device, another laptop, hub, switch,
etc., I might need out in the field when an Ethernet jack is not available.
Initially, I plan on using a credit card machine over Ethernet which works
just fine on home on my cisco 3500 48 port switch.  I had no success, so I
unplugged it not realizing that when I shared my internet connection on my
internal Ethernet port to give my Ethernet port on the usb cable internet
capability, I had actually shut off my internal GBe Ethernet port.  Thanks
for pointing that out.  Any ideas on how to "see" the internet on my "2nd"
Ethernet port?  Will just giving it a unique IP address with a default
gateway of my internal Ethernet port do the trick or just the same default
gateway as my internal Ethernet port?  I'll have to experiment/play with
that and see what happens.  Thanks again, Mike.
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of mike delyea
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:22 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] The Strangest thing just happened?!?

That IP (192.168.137.1) is what Windows 7 sets your ethernet to when you
enable internet connection sharing.  Any chance you might have been messing
around with ICS?

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> My Local Area Connection aka GBe Ethernet port on my laptop in Windows 
> 7 was just set to 192.168.137.1 instead of being DHCP - all by 
> itself?!?.  I've been offline for about a half hour or so when I 
> figured out what was happening.  I sure am glad I'm very computer 
> savvy!  What does the non-savvy people do when things mess up?  I wish 
> more people would call me!  That reminds me when I was in high school, 
> we had an ASR-33 Teletype with paper tape reader and punch connected 
> over a 300 Baud acoustic coupled modem to a DEC PDP8e Mini-computer 
> running Basic!  By the time I could take the Basic class, I knew more 
> than the other kids in class.  J  I loved it.  WOW!
> Those
> were the days when I was just born to computers and I was having a ball.
> When we logged on to the teletype, the opening MOTD said, "To Err Is 
> Human, To Forgive Devine, But To Really Foul Things Up Requires A 
> Computer."  I will always remember that MOTD.  Ahhhhhhh!  J  One night 
> the time was about 6pm and I was plowing away on the teletype, and 
> suddenly in walks my mother!
> She came to get me!  She was angry, because what had happened, 
> unbeknownst to me, the high school was closed and everybody had gone home!
HAHAHAHAHA!
> My mom had to find a janitor and get him to unlock the school so she 
> could get me and bring me home.  That was the first time something had
ever come
> between me and FOOD!  J   Computers are about the ONLY thing that still
> comes between me and food.  They actually make me forget about eating, 
> then all of the sudden - Bam - I'm starving!  J  Well, See you guys later.
>
> Kip
>
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