On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jo-Philipp Wich <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Yes, assign a different LAN subnet (e.g. 192.168.2.1/255.255.255.0) to
>> the LAN and connect the WAN port to one of your existing routers LAN
>> ports.
>>
>> You may also want to open one or more ports on the WAN firewall
>> side to be able to reach your 1043ND from within your existing
>> 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 subnet.
>
> OK, I've set the first part.. the wan port IP/Netmask/Gateway
>
> Like
>
> uci set network.wan.proto=static
> uci set network.wan.proto.ipaddr=192.168.1.50
> uci set network.wan.proto.netmask=255.255.255.0
> uci set network.wan.proto.gateway=192.168.1.1  (<== existing router)
> uci set commit
> /etc/init.d/network restart
>
> Hardwired the wr1043 to a cisco-linksys-120N
>
> But can no longer reach the WR1043
>
> Ping 192.168.1.50  unreachable... and of course I can no longer
> contact it at all.  YIKES
>
> I think setting static may have been a mistake.  However I tried to
> account for it by reserving the MAC of WR1043 as 192.168.1.50 on the
> cisco.
>
> But it appears not to be working.. Or I've boneheaded something.
>
> Maybe I should have left the WR1043 default of dhcp alone?
>
> Anyway, how can I access the darn thing now?

Connect the WR1043 directly to your PC, give to your PC an address in range

# ip l set eth0 up
# ip a add 192.168.1.51/24 dev eth0

You are done. Go with ssh.
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