From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 10 23:10:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996BB45A for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 23:10:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A0682863 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2013 23:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vfe8p-0000dD-SU for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:10:03 +0100 Received: from 65.75.36.70 ([65.75.36.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:10:03 +0100 Received: from gyliamos by 65.75.36.70 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 00:10:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Will Parsons Subject: Re: Problem with wireless router inaccessibility Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <78.D4.19454.7704F725@cdptpa-oedge03> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.75.36.70 User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: gyliamos@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 23:10:13 -0000 Thomas Mueller wrote: > I have a problem where I can no longer log in to my Netgear wireless router from computer in living room, and computer in bedroom, connected to the same router with a 25 ft Ethernet cable, can't connect from any OS where it previously was successful (NetBSD-current amd64 and Linux on System Rescue CD). > > I can still access the Internet and browse from FreeBSD on living-room computer, but can't log in to the router. > > I'm afraid to reboot for fear that I could never regain Internet access. > > It's possible that rebooting could resolve the problem, but there is the risk of not being able to get back in. > > I don't know if the wireless router is going bad, or if its IP > address (192.168.1.1) has changed. Are you sure it's 192.168.1.1? I have a Netgear router, and the manual falsely claims that that address is the default IP address, but I'm pretty sure that the real default was 10.0.0.1 (can't be sure for certain, since I've since changed it). This may be not relevant to your situation, but I recently had a problem in that I disabled the option on the router to serve as a DHCP server (for reasons that I will not go into), and found that I could no longer reach the router, even via Ethernet. (Solution was to set a static IP address and default route in /etc/rc.conf.) -- Will