[PLUG] Hughes net

Mike C. mconnors1 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 20:40:42 UTC 2014


> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:21:41 -0700
> From: Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Hughes net
> To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Message-ID: <20140629012141.GA17372 at gate.kl-ic.com>
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> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:07:49PM -0700, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > The new place I have moved to only has internet access via Huges
> > Net (ugh!) I am using a router behind their router/radio. According
> > to the info I have googled, this thing is supposed to assign addresses
> > in the 192.168.0.x address range with the router being 192.168.0.1
> > It only allows for 5 IP assignments, so I have put a router running
> > OpenWRT behind it, I notice that it gives out a IP assignment of
> > 100.119.170.x with the GW being 100.119.170.1, also when I plug
> > a linux box into the device it gets a assignment in that block of
> > addresses. BUT when the field service guy plugged his windows
> > box into the Huges box it gave him a 192.168.0.x address, what
> > goes here? I googled this and all indicates that the box is supposed
> > to hand out 192.168.0.x addresses, there are several admonitions
> > that you need to make sure (for obvious reasons) that your local
> > router does not use the 192.168.0.x subnet due to the HughesNet
> > device using it as the default (I always change those things to some
> > other subnet because .0.x and .1.x are the most common defaults.
> >
> > Why does this device hand out 100.119.170.x addresses (looks like
> > routable addresses) to the linux box or the router but 192.168.0.x
> > addresses to the windows box?
>

Have you worked through the steps in the "How to configure your home
network" article? http://customer.kb.hughesnet.com/Pages/1189.aspx

Because until you do that there really isn't much help the PLUG mailing
list can offer you. Although many of us here, including myself have a lot
of experience with wired/wireless networks and OpenWrt, we're not Hughesnet
tech support and do not know the particulars of how they do things.



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