From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 12 01:30:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E29AE7 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:30:27 +0000 (UTC) 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 CF6D62F78 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:32:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vg0xe-0006n0-U7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:32:02 +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 ; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:32:02 +0100 Received: from gyliamos by 65.75.36.70 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:32:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Will Parsons Subject: Re: Problem with wireless router inaccessibility Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <78.D4.19454.7704F725@cdptpa-oedge03> <527FEAF9.70300@onetel.com> <6A.C3.19454.0D9A0825@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: 2.1.16 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: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:30:27 -0000 Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Will Parsons: > >> 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.) > > Did you regain login access to the router? As I said, I temporarily set a static IP address in /etc/rc.conf: defaultrouter="10.0.1.1" ifconfig_re0="10.0.1.7 netmask 255.255.255.0" But, if I understand you, you can reach the router (e.g., via ping), but if you attempt to go to http://192.168.1.1 (or whatever), you don't get a login screen? > How do you regain login access to the router if you change its IP > address and then forget what you changed it to? > > I guess the pin-through-a-hole reset would get you back. If you've forgotten what IP address you assigned it, resetting to factory defaults is the logical solution. (Might be a good idea to keep a log book in the future when you make configuration changes.) -- Will