And that netmask value has got to go. I'm no router expert, but I know this is wrong. What you told your router is that when it accepts connections it will allow the binary bits represented by the *zeros* in the mask to change. The mask should be something like 255.255.255.0. That says the first three bytes cannot change. But the last byte can take any value. You can restrict this further by using some other value in the last byte. But for most cases the value I am offering will work.
BTW I would be concerned about the security problem that your neighbour has created for himself. If you can login to his routers configuration page, that is not good. I recommend that the router be configured so it can only be configured from the wired side of the network. But I'm slightly paranoid. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown > Set your secondary to 192.168.1.something!! (not 192.168.5.something) > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:23 PM, dooger watts <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Primary router is set to >> 192.168.1.5--which is what I set the subnet mask to in my dd-wrt >> configs). >> >> (That should read "gateway" instead of "subnet mask"). >> >> >> Ben Barrett wrote: >> >>> Not sorry, just curious if the primary is at 192.168.5.1 and what level >>> of >>> networking experience you've got :) >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
