liksys WRT54G

[Michael Havens]

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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