[ale] [OT] router question

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

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.

Ron



"Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>Here are some random thoughts:
>
>I'm assuming you meant 100.42 on that last ip address.
>
>I've had similar problems with a small Linksys print server.
>
>* Make sure the WAN port on the dlink is wired to the LAN port on the
>Motorola, if it has multiple ports.
>* If the Dlink has a setting where you can set it to a specific
>address, check if those numbers are empty.  You could set it to "use
>specific address", empty the numbers or set to an ip that will never
>exist on your network, save it, then reset it to dhcp.
>* You could try resetting the dlink to factory defaults then resetting
>the settings you need.
>* You could try reflashing the firmware of the dlink.
>* If you have other switches, pc's, or routers that serve dhcp, make
>sure it's not talking to them.
>* You could use another pc or router to see if those devices can get a
>proper dhcp address from the Motorola.
>* Power cycle the Motorola.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Ron
>
>
>
>John Pilman <jcpilman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I need a reality check on what I am seeing at home.  I have a Motorola
>>Surfboard Modem that says it is setup to provide DHCP addressing in
>the
>>range 192.168.100.11 - 192.168.10.42.
>>Downstream I have a Dlink wireless router that says its connection
>type
>>is
>>DHCP and its WAN address is 24.99.228.229.
>>
>>I expected the Dlink router to have a WAN address in the above range.
>I
>>tried a few things, like releasing and renewing the connection on the
>>router using the HTML menus, but I came back to the same thing.  The
>>Surfboard does not look like it provides anything for me to configure.
>>I
>>can only get status information for it.
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>>
>>...John
>>
>
>



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