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tpolich

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Registered: 2009-08-07

Posts: 44

Access a switch

I have a switch (linksys router with dd-wrt wan disabled acting as a switch) connected to a router that goes to the internet. I can get internet just fine and connect to the router but I can never get to the switches web configure screen. My router issues all ip address as 75.102.203.* I have set the switches ip address to 192.168.5.1. I figured then I could use static routing on the router to direct all 192.168.5.1 coming through it to itself but that didn't work to well.

What I want to know is how I would go about taking all requests for 192.168.5.1 and keeping them at the switch rather than going out to the router.

I have been looking at static routing because from my understand that is my best bet but I don't know too much about it.

If anyone could help I would really appreciate it.

Timothy Polich

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: Access a switch

All devices need to have addresses in the same address range -- static routes won't help if they're in different address space.

Add a temporary IP Address to your computer in the 192.168.5.0/24 address space:

ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.5.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Then you should be able to open the DD-WRT web ui from your computer (and your computer only). Change the address to something in the same address space as the rest of the network.

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