Pat. I believe you gave me the clue about what to do. I found in the dd-wrt forum for the wrt54g v2 linksys a few print-screens describing how to set the "hidden" parameters for a static ip address.
It required me to log to the system and obtain that system's mac address and the hostname. That done, a refresh after doing an ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 on the target centos system solved my problem. I am still curious about Tomato, but if the router is stable, does not lockup, I would find no reason to modify it. Thanks to the lead to this website from Slav, Slav lost the sale of his ASUS router to me. Recommendation Slav. try selling it on craigs list. Cheers Leslie ------------------ Regards Mr. Leslie Leslie Satenstein mailto:[email protected] mailto [email protected] www.itbms.biz --- On Tue, 11/10/09, patricia campbell <[email protected]> wrote: From: patricia campbell <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] what router would you recommend Thank you email To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 12:58 PM There are ways around "all or nothing for dhcp" you can always hard assign an ip address & either limit the dhcp range or if that is not possible w your software assign an ip addr at the far end of the dhcp range that would never be reached. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Leslie Satenstein <[email protected]> wrote: --- On Mon, 11/9/09, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jeremy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MLUG] what router would you recommend To: "Montreal Linux Users Group" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 11:38 PM Leslie Satenstein wrote: > Denis, will wait t'il am, as modem is in the office. > > I need to restore it to the out-of-the box settings and then will ask > you guys about dd-wrt.com and what to do with it. > > Actually, I wish it allowed me to accept some device id's as static > addresses (back-end). > > I have a server, and with dynamic addressing, the router likes to > change IP addresses every whim it gets. So my backend device wanders > from *.101 to *.106. > > Now it locks up every few hours. So either I replace it, or I revert > it and follow the dd-wrt.com instructions for upgrading. > > It drives a wireless/wired print server that did not have to be > wireless, but that is what I inherited. > > Thanks to Slav, who I will contact if fixing the linksys fails, I have > a fallback. > > Leslie > > *------------------ > > * > > Regards > > * > Mr. Leslie > * > *Leslie Satenstein > * > You only need to unbrick it if it is actually a brick, ie totally unresponsive. It is easy (if it works), just short a jumper and then use tftp boot method. However, if you can get to Linksys firmware you just need to upload a .bin of the new firmware through the admin/upgrade interface. dd-wrt has docs on all this as well as how to find the right firmware for your router. I actually use Tomato now on wrt54g. Jeremy PS: You can set static dhcp in dd-wrt leslie so no more wandering IPs _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca Hi Guys I was using the wrg54g bin file for the upgrade and it failed bitterly with a lockup occurring every few hours. With the recommendation of visiting www.dd-wrt.com, I downloaded the recommended bin file (3.54megs), installed it, setup the wireless and we are running. Now to see if it will survive (to eliminate hardware problems). Regarding Tomato, I would like to learn more about it. Even with this software version that I installed, there is functionality that I know little about. For one thing, I have a requirement to use dhcp backend, except for one local server. There, I want the address fixed. With the linksys software, it appeared to be all-or-nothing for dhcp. So, for now, the linksys appears stable. I will google the tomato software to learn more about it, and if I can, I will take a Sunday AM to experiment with it. Thanks to all for the advice and leads. Leslie _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca -- ___..____._..___._..___. ...|...|___/..|..|......|..|___| ...|...|.....\..|..|___.|..|.....| "I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it." -Vincent Van Gogh -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
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