liksys WRT54G
koder
iscreamkid at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 20:53:29 MST 2014
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
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> thanks for the link.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:14 PM, koder <iscreamkid at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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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