liksys WRT54G

Wed Oct 22 05:42:14 MST 2014

On the plus side you can reset to factory defaults easily without a
password.
On Oct 21, 2014 8:53 PM, "koder" <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Mike,
>
> My router came with a default password on it for the admin account.
> The exciting password for the 'admin' account is 'admin'
>
> I have always wondered if someone was trying to be funny or not.
>
> In any case, I changed it first thing, before I even exposed it to the
> Internet.
> As far as a password for the outside world, I don't think it needs one
> because your exposure is governed by the firewall. How someone gains access
> to install apps on from outside, is beyond my knowledge level but there was
> some discussion on PLUG about their being hacked.
>
> Unfortunately, I have just discovered that I no longer have a record of
> the password I put on the unit.
> Ooops. I am a bit red faced.
>
> Harold
>
>
>
> On 10/21/2014 05:43 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> I've discovered that there is no passwd on this router.In otherwords it is
> open to the world. I googled it but all the results talk about the router
> password. Koder, you have the same device on your system..... how did you
> fix this?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> thanks for the link.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:14 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  The terms LAN, WAN, MAN, HAN and such are used very sloppily.
>>> They can be used to designate the physical (geographical) area covered
>>> by the network.
>>>
>>> Most of them were developed in the early networking days when computers
>>> and communication equipment was expensive and the physical distances you
>>> could communicate over were limited.
>>>
>>> Technically, that little Linksys gadget you can hold in your hands is a
>>> LAN server, because the cabling that it will drive can only go a short
>>> distance. Its input comes from a WAN. In today's case that would most
>>> likely, but not necessarily the Intenet.
>>>
>>> In your case you have chosen to put your LAN server between your LAN and
>>> your true server at your Internet Service Provider. In addition, as I
>>> understand it you have an additional modem server further dividing things
>>> up.
>>>
>>> If you care Wikipedia has a nice article that will tell more than you
>>> want to know.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_network
>>>
>>> HM
>>>
>>> On 10/19/2014 12:31 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>> so the port I'm wondering about is an input port then. I thought I read
>>> that it is also a wan part.  How does that work? Like I know the internet
>>> is a wan but how does it work in this case?
>>>
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:27 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Mike,
>>>>
>>>> I have the same device in my networking system. My answer may not be
>>>> 100% correct, but here is my SWAG:
>>>>
>>>> The device was designed to serve as a router with DHCP server
>>>> capabilities, in other words it hands out IP addresses to requests that
>>>> come from one of the output ports.
>>>>
>>>> You can access the device using its web page and turn that feature off,
>>>> it then acts as a bridge router and the DHCP functioning will come from
>>>> further upsteam, from your other router.
>>>>
>>>> The network will not function correctly if you have two different
>>>> devices trying to pass out IP addresses using DHCP. Everything pretty much
>>>> quits talking to each other.
>>>>
>>>> While I have never tried using the device by plugging everything only
>>>> into the output ports, I am guessing that connection setup would use the
>>>> device as a bare dumb switch. No more double DHCP, only happy connectivity.
>>>>
>>>> I am reasonably sure my explanation is not technically correct, but is
>>>> functional. I was quite loose with input, output, upstream, and  downstream
>>>> analogies, but that is the way I think of them.
>>>>
>>>> By the way on a separate item, it is my understanding that most of
>>>> these devices are hacked and infected and should be either upgraded, or
>>>> replaced. I have yet to do either, but I think that is the case.
>>>>
>>>> HM
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/17/2014 03:08 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  That is the router I have. On the back there are 4 LAN ports and
>>>> another port labled Internet. My setup had the cable from the modem feeding
>>>> into that port and everything worked until a couple of days ago. Today I
>>>> switched that cable to a LAN port and everything worked again. I asked in
>>>> another thread the purpose of the internet port and MR Butash gave me an
>>>> answer but it is still a lot hazy. In my research to answer the question
>>>> myself I found a wikipedia article that states:
>>>>
>>>>  The original *WRT54G* was first released in December 2002. It has a
>>>> 4+1 port network switch <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_switch> (the
>>>> Internet/WAN port is part of the same internal network switch, but on a
>>>> different VLAN <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLAN>).
>>>>
>>>>  My questions: What is that port for if not to be an input port for
>>>> the internet
>>>> and
>>>> Why was it working as an input port for the internet and why did it
>>>> stop working as such?
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
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