<p dir="ltr">Thanks, everyone for the input. I was not familiar with passthrough DHCP and that makes a lot of sense. I had to leave the house, so I unplugged the router until I get back. When I get home I'll look again with more information. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I can say it is Comcast, and I did give them the MAC ID when I connected it. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">...John</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 25, 2013 11:23 AM, "Boris Borisov" <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"> <div>Mine is :<br><br></div><div> <div><label>2</label><span>4</span><label>.</label><label>9</label><label>9</label><span>.</span><label>1</label><label>8</label><label>6</label><span>.</span><span>7</span><span>7<br>
<br></span></div><div><span>Probably they own different IP ranges.<br></span></div> </div> <br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Somebody mentioned Comcast. You didn't say who your provider is, but if it's Comcast, a 24. address doesn't sound like Comcast. My Comcast WAN ip currently starts with 76.<br>
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"Ron Frazier (ALE)" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>Hi John,<br>
><br>
>Here are some random thoughts:<br>
><br>
>I'm assuming you meant 100.42 on that last ip address.<br>
><br>
>I've had similar problems with a small Linksys print server.<br>
><br>
>* Make sure the WAN port on the dlink is wired to the LAN port on the<br>
>Motorola, if it has multiple ports.<br>
>* If the Dlink has a setting where you can set it to a specific<br>
>address, check if those numbers are empty. You could set it to "use<br>
>specific address", empty the numbers or set to an ip that will never<br>
>exist on your network, save it, then reset it to dhcp.<br>
>* You could try resetting the dlink to factory defaults then resetting<br>
>the settings you need.<br>
>* You could try reflashing the firmware of the dlink.<br>
>* If you have other switches, pc's, or routers that serve dhcp, make<br>
>sure it's not talking to them.<br>
>* You could use another pc or router to see if those devices can get a<br>
>proper dhcp address from the Motorola.<br>
>* Power cycle the Motorola.<br>
><br>
>Sincerely,<br>
><br>
>Ron<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>John Pilman <<a href="mailto:jcpilman@gmail.com" target="_blank">jcpilman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>>I need a reality check on what I am seeing at home. I have a Motorola<br>
>>Surfboard Modem that says it is setup to provide DHCP addressing in<br>
>the<br>
>>range 192.168.100.11 - 192.168.10.42.<br>
>>Downstream I have a Dlink wireless router that says its connection<br>
>type<br>
>>is<br>
>>DHCP and its WAN address is <a href="tel:24.99.228.229" value="+12499228229" target="_blank">24.99.228.229</a>.<br>
>><br>
>>I expected the Dlink router to have a WAN address in the above range.<br>
>I<br>
>>tried a few things, like releasing and renewing the connection on the<br>
>>router using the HTML menus, but I came back to the same thing. The<br>
>>Surfboard does not look like it provides anything for me to configure.<br>
>>I<br>
>>can only get status information for it.<br>
>><br>
>>Any thoughts?<br>
>><br>
>>...John<br>
>><br>
><br>
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