[PLUG] Router configuration: connecting laptop [FIXED]

wes plug at the-wes.com
Sat Dec 7 21:47:41 UTC 2019


Easy for you and me. Not so easy for those less familiar with how
networking works.

-wes

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 1:38 PM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> FYI, with ip it is easy to set multiple addresses on the same interface. It
> can be both 192.168.1.x/24 and 192.168.55.x/24 at the same time.
>
> Of course, some daemon on the system might be helpfully removing your
> changes for you.
>
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 1:25 PM wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 1:09 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 7 Dec 2019, wes wrote:
> > >
> > > > What does this mean? What command did you use to get the network
> > > > unreachable result?
> > >
> > > Wes,
> > >
> > > Sorry about the wording. That message doesn't appear, but ping shows
> the
> > > initial '56(84) bytes of data' line then nothing. When I kill ping
> using
> > ^c
> > > it shows the number of transmitted packets and 0 received packets.
> > >
> > > When I try to load the admin web page firefox tells me it cannot
> "connect
> > > to
> > > the server at 192.168.55.4."
> > >
> > > Rich
> > >
> > >
> > Ok, so we need to see if the router remembered the network address
> change.
> > You'll have to set the laptop back to 192.168.1.x and see if it can ping
> > 192.168.1.1 at that point.
> >
> > -wes
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