[SOLVED] How to find IP of downstream AP and then how to reach it?
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Below that on the page are some choices relative to fixed IP. I assume that I should choose fixed, but unsure what final octet to enter. The DHCP IP Address Range of the 655 is shown to be 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199. Do I understand that it should be any number outside that range (obviously not 192.168.0.1) but do I need to take care that there is nothing else on the lan that has that number already?
Yes you should stay outside of the DHCP range, and you should avoid using an IP already in use by another static machine, but you should know what those IPs are since you would have had to manually set them.
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Originally Posted by Odyssey1942
Do I need to fill in the mac address?
You shouldn't, that's probably for mac spoofing when interfacing with a modem from your ISP, which is largely irrelevant at this point in time.
That didn't take long. I had selected WPA as the encryption.
Plugged the 624 in where it is wanted and attempted to log in with my Nexus 7, but a log-in screen unlike I have ever seen before came up. Here are the lines:
I have no idea what all of that means except the name and password. So I tried to login just entering the password that I set up for wifi, but got an "authentication problem" message.
First of all, I have not ever seen a login screen like that, and so assume that it had something to do with my settings in the 624 admin panel.
Any suggestions as to why the unusual screen and what I need to do to get logged in. Thanks.
Never seen something like that before. What if you use your router's login credentials (not wifi, but the admin/password that you need to access the setup page)?
Will try that next, but have already brought the 624 back to my computer to log into the admin panel to check my setting. However cannot find the admin panel at either 192.168.0.1 or at 192.168.0.99 (the fixed IP address that I gave it.
Will try that next, but have already brought the 624 back to my computer to log into the admin panel to check my setting. However cannot find the admin panel at either 192.168.0.1 or at 192.168.0.99 (the fixed IP address that I gave it.
Flummmoxed!
Do I need to reset the router and start over?
You disabled the DHCP server. You're going to need to give your computer a static IP on the 192.168.0.x subnet and then connect to 192.168.0.99.
the 624 is powered on and I am plugged into a lan port.
How do I "..give your(my) computer a static IP on the 192.168.0.x subnet and then connect to 192.168.0.99."? (In case it matters, this computer is a lubuntu OS portable without a wifi.)
Edit: would it be simpler just to reset the router?
Last edited by Odyssey1942; 02-17-2015 at 05:32 PM.
I have to leave at 4am tomorrow morning, and so needing to move ahead, I had reset the router before michaelk's latest. Anyway now ifconfig shows an ip# at ethO as 192.168.0.100, but we had previously determined that was the computer not the router.
In the admin panel there are the following main categories:
DHCP
Wireless
WAN
LAN
I am certain that DHCP, at a minimum, needs to be configured. Here is what I did:
-disabled DHCP
-enabled static DHCP, gave it a name (which it forgot after saving), and set the IP to 192.168.0.99
For the moment do any of the others need to be configured?
In any case for security, I have attempted to set the wireless as follows:
-gave it a name
-I accepted the default channel 6
-set authentication to WPA
Below this were:
-Radius Server 1:
IP 0.0.0.0
Port 1812
Shared Secret (key? I failed to write anything after "Secret") and I left it blank
-Radius Server 2: (optional) [Does this mean that Server 1 is mandatory?
IP 0.0.0.0
Port 0
Shared Secret (key? I failed to write anything after "Secret") and I left it blank
I did not enter anything into either of these Radius Servers. Should I have?
So after all that, I get that same screen that I described earlier. I found this explanation:
I am certain that DHCP, at a minimum, needs to be configured. Here is what I did:
-disabled DHCP
-enabled static DHCP, gave it a name (which it forgot after saving), and set the IP to 192.168.0.99
Wait, what?
Static DHCP? A name? What exactly are you configuring here? Could you post a screenshot of the configuration page?
I reset the router again so that I could get back into the admin panel. I don't know how to put up a screen shot and in any case that portable is not online.
Here is what it says:
The top half of the DHCP page is labeled:
-DHCP Server
the bottom half of the page is labeled:
-Static DHCP
Immediately underneath is this sentence: "Static DHCP is used to allow DHCP server to assign same IP Address to specific MAC address"
Beneath that sentence is the stuff I previously described.
I hope this helps clarify any confusion.
This time, I did not enable WPAm, just left it open and I can connect to the internet just fine. So the issue has to do with the authentication settings
Last edited by Odyssey1942; 02-17-2015 at 07:59 PM.
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