Mike,
My router came with a default password on it for the admin account.
The exciting password for the 'admin' account is 'admin'
I have always wondered if someone was trying to be funny or not.
In any case, I changed it first thing, before I even exposed it to the
Internet.
As far as a password for the outside world, I don't think it needs one
because your exposure is governed by the firewall. How someone gains
access to install apps on from outside, is beyond my knowledge level but
there was some discussion on PLUG about their being hacked.
Unfortunately, I have just discovered that I no longer have a record of
the password I put on the unit.
Ooops. I am a bit red faced.
Harold
On 10/21/2014 05:43 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
I've discovered that there is no passwd on this router.In otherwords
it is open to the world. I googled it but all the results talk about
the router password. Koder, you have the same device on your
system..... how did you fix this?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
thanks for the link.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:14 PM, koder <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The terms LAN, WAN, MAN, HAN and such are used very sloppily.
They can be used to designate the physical (geographical) area
covered by the network.
Most of them were developed in the early networking days when
computers and communication equipment was expensive and the
physical distances you could communicate over were limited.
Technically, that little Linksys gadget you can hold in your
hands is a LAN server, because the cabling that it will drive
can only go a short distance. Its input comes from a WAN. In
today's case that would most likely, but not necessarily the
Intenet.
In your case you have chosen to put your LAN server between
your LAN and your true server at your Internet Service
Provider. In addition, as I understand it you have an
additional modem server further dividing things up.
If you care Wikipedia has a nice article that will tell more
than you want to know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_network
HM
On 10/19/2014 12:31 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
so the port I'm wondering about is an input port then. I
thought I read that it is also a wan part. How does that
work? Like I know the internet is a wan but how does it work
in this case?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:27 PM, koder <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Mike,
I have the same device in my networking system. My answer
may not be 100% correct, but here is my SWAG:
The device was designed to serve as a router with DHCP
server capabilities, in other words it hands out IP
addresses to requests that come from one of the output ports.
You can access the device using its web page and turn
that feature off, it then acts as a bridge router and the
DHCP functioning will come from further upsteam, from
your other router.
The network will not function correctly if you have two
different devices trying to pass out IP addresses using
DHCP. Everything pretty much quits talking to each other.
While I have never tried using the device by plugging
everything only into the output ports, I am guessing that
connection setup would use the device as a bare dumb
switch. No more double DHCP, only happy connectivity.
I am reasonably sure my explanation is not technically
correct, but is functional. I was quite loose with input,
output, upstream, and downstream analogies, but that is
the way I think of them.
By the way on a separate item, it is my understanding
that most of these devices are hacked and infected and
should be either upgraded, or replaced. I have yet to do
either, but I think that is the case.
HM
On 10/17/2014 03:08 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
That is the router I have. On the back there are 4 LAN
ports and another port labled Internet. My setup had the
cable from the modem feeding into that port and
everything worked until a couple of days ago. Today I
switched that cable to a LAN port and everything worked
again. I asked in another thread the purpose of the
internet port and MR Butash gave me an answer but it is
still a lot hazy. In my research to answer the question
myself I found a wikipedia article that states:
The original *WRT54G* was first released in December
2002. It has a 4+1 port network switch
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch> (the
Internet/WAN port is part of the same internal network
switch, but on a different VLAN
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN>).
My questions: What is that port for if not to be an
input port for the internet
and
Why was it working as an input port for the internet and
why did it stop working as such?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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