[NCSA-discuss] wrt54gs and openwrt, rfc1918/dhcp question

[Kevin Wilcox]

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John Broome wrote:
> On 1/19/06, Steven Champeon <schampeo at hesketh.com> wrote:
> 
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>>Seems, however, that the s/w that comes with the WRT54GS expects to hand
>>out 192.168.1.x addresses - and there's no way to change it. Also, it
>>doesn't seem to want me to treat its IP as anything but 192.168.1.1.
>>Well, I've already got one of those, thanks. And I'd like to be able to
>>say "hey, WRT, be 192.,168.1.129, and hand out IPs from 130 to 140" or
>>some such, and have it route traffic over to 192.168.1.1, my Linux
>>firewall, and on the internal network.
> 
> 
> 
> According to my neighbors WRT54G that's unsecured you can change the
> Router IP to be whatever you want, then change the starting IP address
> and max number of DHCP users that you want.
> 
> All on the first page of linksys admin interface.

John - on the WRT54G this is indeed the case (I have to set mine to use
a different IP block than the wired network).

I believe the problem is that our friend Steven is using a WRT54GS and
he believes it to be hard wired to use a specific IP address/range. I'm
assuming that he came to this conclusion after logging in at
http://192.168.1.1 with a blank username and admin as password.

I wouldn't think Linksys would do something so blatantly moronic but I
am not going to put it past any company to have said "this has been
confusing to xxxx users, let's take it out for this model".

kw
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