Unable to access router through browser

sadger · 2012-08-02 15:43:22

Hi,

I have a router set up to broadcast my ethernet internet to wireless devices and I was able to access the router
through the usual address 192.168.0.1 but recently this address isn't working and the wireless capability of the router is no longer functioning, in that if i connect an ethernet cable to my router it will still forward everything but I am unable to connect from a wireless device.

What I have noted that the default gateway seems to be showing an external IP address rather than an internal one which I assume it was doing before.

Any help fixing and/or diagnosing will be appreciated.

-- Sadger

Last edited by sadger (2012-08-02 15:46:34)

Gcool · 2012-08-03 07:11:53

I take it you also can't reach 192.168.0.1 when connecting your pc/laptop directly to the router using ethernet?

When having done the above, please post the output of the following:

# ip addr
# ip route

sadger · 2012-08-03 14:56:25

Well I have done some investigate and it seems the network which I am part of (big shared network) is assigning me an IP address in the range 109.xxx.xxx.xxx so I am no longer on the subnet for access to the router.
Is there anything I can do about this? I can give myself a static IP to obtain access to the router but no longer have access to the internet.

ip addr
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 20:cf:30:7f:88:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 109.175.163.63/24 brd 109.175.163.255 scope global eth0
inet6 2002:6daf:a32f:a:22cf:30ff:fe7f:8833/64 scope global dynamic
valid_lft 2591929sec preferred_lft 604729sec
inet6 fec0::a:22cf:30ff:fe7f:8833/64 scope site dynamic
valid_lft 2591929sec preferred_lft 604729sec
inet6 fe80::22cf:30ff:fe7f:8833/64 scope link
valid_lft for

ip route
default via 109.175.163.1 dev eth0 metric 202
109.175.163.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 109.175.163.63 metric 202
ever preferred_lft forever

Gcool · 2012-08-04 07:13:52

Do you also get a similar ip when connecting via ethernet? If so, I'm guessing the router is in bridged mode.

Your best/simplest guess in that case is to simply reset the router and reconfigure it.

sadger · 2012-08-04 14:58:25

Yeah I do. Is there anything I should do/avoid doing when configuring the router to make sure I am on the same subnet as the router.
Let me clarify if it helps, I am able to get a internet connection directly from an ethernet port in the wall and want to use the router to allow wireless access.
So I am intending to use the router as a bridge. Is there any way to get around this or am I at the mercy of the network?

Gcool · 2012-08-05 06:22:32

If you want to put it in bridged mode, then it's completely normal that your clients will be receiving an ip address directly assigned from the modem/isp. If you setup your router in normal/router mode, then the router itself will be receiving that ip address and use its own dhcp server to provide leases to the connecting clients (and hence the clients will be receiving private ip addresses).

ewaller · 2012-08-05 17:01:39

sadger wrote:

Yeah I do. Is there anything I should do/avoid doing when configuring the router to make sure I am on the same subnet as the router.
Let me clarify if it helps, I am able to get a internet connection directly from an ethernet port in the wall and want to use the router to allow wireless access.
So I am intending to use the router as a bridge. Is there any way to get around this or am I at the mercy of the network?

You say Bridge, but you are describing NAT. You probably want to configure your router to implement a Private Network which is administered by the router. That network will probably have addresses of the for 192.xxx.xxx.xxx. The router will assign addresses using DHCP, will provide passthrough DNS services, and will route to the Internet using NAT. This means it also acts as a firewall.

In bridge mode, each machine on the router gets its address from the subnet controller provided by your ISP. Each machine has a presence on the Internet. For the machines to find each other, you need to use some dort of dynamic DNS service for each machine. Of course, that means Harry Hacker can find each of your machines too...

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#1 2012-08-02 15:43:22

Unable to access router through browser

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