Router Setup Problem

[Michael Butash]

Did you update your default gateway to be .5 instead of .1 for the dhcp 
scope handing out to clients?  If your gateway is still pointing at .1, 
or your dhcp gateway is handing out .1 where your router/gateway is .5, 
that would do it.

-mb


On 03/29/2013 07:39 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I just received a new ASUS RT-N16 running dd-wrt from Flashrouters. I
> replaced my aging Linksys BEFSX41. The only change I made was to the LAN
> IP - the router comes setup with 192.168.1.1, and I changed it to
> 192.168.25.5 (my network is 192.168.25.xxx). I connected the new router
> to Cox through my cable modem, got a new DHCP WAN IP and new dns
> nameservers. I updated my
> /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the new
> dns nameservers,
> dns-search (changed from tc.ph.cox.net <http://tc.ph.cox.net> to
> ph.cox.net <http://ph.cox.net>), and
> the gateway from 192.168.25.1 (old router) to 192.168.25.5 (new router)
> (I use a fixed IP on the wired network, and DHCP for the wireless)
>
> I can connect to the Internet using the wireless part of the new router,
> but the wired part of the new router times out on access to the
> Internet. I can ping all my local machines on the wired network. When I
> ping google.com <http://google.com>, the error is ping: unknown host
> google.com <http://google.com>, so I assume I cannot resolve any
> Internet addresses.
>
> Any suggestions on how to further troubleshoot/fix this problem?
>
> Thanks, and Happy Good Friday to everyone!
>
> Mark
>
>
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