my WAP hates me

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Author: Eric Bishop
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Subject: my WAP hates me
David,

You stated that nmap says 80 is open, did you scan your IP (internet
access provider assigned) or did you scan 192.168.1.1?

Eric

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:10, David A. Sinck wrote:
> I just got what I had thought was a more or less nice access point
> (linksys befw11s4) but it hates me. Well, I suspose it's more along
> the lines of taunting me.
>
> I know it works because I can get to the outside (with difficulty, but
> it's a firewall issue that I'm not going to argue with at the moment)
> on a wireless connection. So I've at least got it partly
> configured....
>
> The problem is that the happy user guide says 'type in
> http://192.168.1.1/ and have configuration goodness'. Well, thereby
> hangs the tail. When booted to linux, it just will *not* see that
> address from a browser. Talking to it by hand via the lowest common
> demoniator broser (telnet) gives similar results. nmap says '80/tcp
> open http'. Ping is happy. iptables are wide open.
>
> In desparation, I went to the dark side... whamo! it worked.
>
> I feel unclean.
>
> If it had been doing NTLM or something I could have said, ok, that's
> the reason, as much as I would dislike it. But even the bloody faq
> says that linux will work to configure it b/c it's a pure web app.
>
> Anybody got a bar of soap (aka clue) to scrub the windows crud offa
> me?
>
> Please?
>
> firmware 1.45.1, June 2003 (newer than released on website afaict).
> http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=68#general
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>     <Faydakin> I'm gonna start using tar for preserving data
>     <Faydakin> just like the dinosaurs

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