FYI, with ip it is easy to set multiple addresses on the same interface. It can be both 192.168.1.x/24 and 192.168.55.x/24 at the same time.
Of course, some daemon on the system might be helpfully removing your changes for you. On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 1:25 PM wes <p...@the-wes.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 1:09 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Dec 2019, wes wrote: > > > > > What does this mean? What command did you use to get the network > > > unreachable result? > > > > Wes, > > > > Sorry about the wording. That message doesn't appear, but ping shows the > > initial '56(84) bytes of data' line then nothing. When I kill ping using > ^c > > it shows the number of transmitted packets and 0 received packets. > > > > When I try to load the admin web page firefox tells me it cannot "connect > > to > > the server at 192.168.55.4." > > > > Rich > > > > > Ok, so we need to see if the router remembered the network address change. > You'll have to set the laptop back to 192.168.1.x and see if it can ping > 192.168.1.1 at that point. > > -wes > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug