On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, wes wrote:
If DHCP is enabled on the router, and some new device connects to your
local network, and also has DHCP enabled, the router will assign the next
IP address in its sequence to the device. If anything else on the local
network already has that address set statically
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Rich Shepard
wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> Stay tuned. Update Real Soon Now.
>>
>
> Wes,
>
> Thanks for the lesson. Connecting to a LAN port and temporarily setting
> the laptop eth0 to use DHCP made the difference. This is on a Linksys
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
Stay tuned. Update Real Soon Now.
Wes,
Thanks for the lesson. Connecting to a LAN port and temporarily setting
the laptop eth0 to use DHCP made the difference. This is on a Linksys wrt54g
v.2 router. I also upgraded the firmware to 4.21.5.
On the
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, wes wrote:
Should be in a LAN port, plugging your laptop into the WAN port will not do
you any good.
Wes,
I wondered about this.
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 th
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Rich Shepard
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
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 add
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Jim Garrison wrote:
a) It's not necessarily the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. Sometimes it's
192.168.0.0/24, you have to check the documentation that came
with the router, or look on the manufacturer's website.
b) The router address isn't necessarily .1, it could be .254
c) I
a) It's not necessarily the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. Sometimes it's
192.168.0.0/24, you have to check the documentation that came
with the router, or look on the manufacturer's website.
b) The router address isn't necessarily .1, it could be .254
c) It should come with DHCP enabled and should
My limited experience suggests that all routers are delivered with the IP
address of 192.168.1.1. To configure the router a portable (usually) host
needs to be converted from its LAN to the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. I want to
learn what needs to be checked and altered as necessary when changing the
