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Re: networking with a DSL router



On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 07:50:05PM -0400, Robert Webb wrote:
> 
> Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I bought an Ovislink SR-500 router/switch, but can't configure it.  
> >
> >It has a default address of 192.168.1.254, and I'm supposed to be able
> >to configure it via telnet at port 333.  Unfortunately I can't even ping
> >it.
> >
> >My internet connection is up on ppp0/eth0 as I write this and I'm 
> >trying the following steps:
> >
> >	ifconfig eth1  192.168.0.2
> >	route add  192.168.1.254 eth1
> >and route -n says
> >
> >Kernel IP routing table
> >Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref
> >Use Iface
> >205.200.28.28   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0 0 ppp0
> >192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0 0 eth1
> >192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0 0 eth0
> >192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0 0 eth1
> >0.0.0.0         205.200.28.28   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0 0 ppp0
> >
> >When I try ping 192.168.1.254 I can see the light on the router
> >flashing but get 100% packet loss.  telnet just times out.
> >(the 192.168.0.0 stuff is from snort, I think)
> >
> >I know next to nothing about networking and its manual assumes M$.
> >Does anyone have any ideas on where I'm going wrong?
> >
> >TIA
> >Patrick.
> >--
> >	"There are 10 different kinds of people in the world, 
> >	those who count in binary, and those who don't"
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> AFAIK you must have your ethernet in the same subnet. Just putting in 
> that route statement will NOT
> work. You must change the IP on your machine to the 192.168.1.xxx subnet.
> 
> Robert
> 

YES!!!  I switched eth1 to 192.168.1.2 and now I'm in!

Now I just need to use tftp to upgrade the firmware, should be trivial
right? :-)

Many thanks Robert, I was stuck on this for a week.

Patrick.
--
	"There are 10 different kinds of people in the world, 
      	those who count in binary, and those who don't"


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