internet problem

[Carruth, Rusty]

Yeah, I saw ET's answer and considered a head-smack ;-)

On the other hand, in THIS case, since Mike hard reset the device, the chances of its being something other than /24 (or some other 'reasonable' netmask) is extremely close to nonexistent ;-)

But, in general, if you want to know what your computer thinks, ET's way is right.    (Of course, if we wanted to get pedantic, I just (a nanosecond before I hit 'send') realized that there IS a case where it might not be right - consider the case of more than one (active) Ethernet device, and the eth<x> which has your linksys on it isn't the one that is the default route... ok, that's WAY more than enough on THIS subject!!! :-))

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From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of kitepilot at kitepilot.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:26 PM
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Subject: Re: internet problem

Carruth, Rusty writes: 

> So, do ‘ifconfig’ on the PC to see what address it got (192.168.0.123 or 192.168.1.2 or whatever), and change the last octet to 1 and you should have your linksys IP address.   Hopefully ;-)
Which, BTW, this statement is mostly true for a /24 address, but no always.
If you have a lower than /24 network, the possibilities also grow significantly. 

The 'ip route show|grep default' method is bullet proof. 

Truth to be told though, the chances the chances that Rusty method doesn't work in this case range from minimal to nonexistent...
:)
ET 

 

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> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael 
> Havens
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 11:41 AM
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> Subject: Re: internet problem
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> well it isn't really two routes. 1 is a modem router. 
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> :-)~MIKE~(-: 
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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. <mailing-lists at phoenixinternet.net> wrote: 
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> Michael,
> If I remember correctly, you have 2 routers. You should refer to your old conversations on this message board where myself and others described how to setup your network. I would never have hit the reset button, your issue was probably with your cabling. 
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> Gilbert
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> On 10/15/2014 11:18 AM, Michael Havens wrote: 
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> 	Here is my setup: 
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> 	I have the modem (actiontek pk5000) in the living room for my xbmc box. From there I ran a hardwire into the office into a router (linksys wrt54g) which feeds a computer in my brothers room and my main computer. 
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> 	I decided to move my main computer and after I did so the internet after the linksys would not connect. so I unplugged the linksys and reconnected the power but that didn't help. SO I figured that maybe I needed to reconfigure it so I pressed the reset button for 30 seconds and connected the internet port to the computer  and restarted the computer but I couldn't get into the configuration page (192.168.1.1). I seem to remember that it was 192.168.101.1 but that didn't work either. What am I doing wrong?
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> 	:-)~MIKE~(-: 
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