On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Jim Garrison wrote:
>
> c) It should come with DHCP enabled and should assign the laptop
>>   a valid address when you plug in the ethernet cable, if you let it
>>
>
> Jim,
>
>   Changed the laptop's eth0 to use DHCP and it's connected to the router's
> WAN port. Rebooted laptop. No ipv4 address on eth0.


Should be in a LAN port, plugging your laptop into the WAN port will not do
you any good.


>
> d) If all else fails, connect the network cable then fire up Wireshark.
>>  Look for arp packets and you'll find the router's IP address and network
>>  quickly.
>>
>
>   Wireshark-2.4.2 is building now. Will read User Guide to learn how to get
> the router's address (which should be 192.168.1.1 because that's marked on
> the router and it worked the last time I accessed it. I'm surprised it did
> not assign an IP address to the laptop. Perhaps I did things out of
> sequence.


I think your initial assumption that some other setting must be off is
erroneous. But I can't offer much more without knowing more about the
setup. Possibly the only issue is with plugging in to the WAN port.

-wes
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