[ale] [OT] router question

[Boris Borisov]

 Mine is :

24.99.186.77

Probably they own different IP ranges.



On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> Somebody mentioned Comcast.  You didn't say who your provider is, but if
> it's Comcast, a 24. address doesn't sound like Comcast.  My Comcast WAN ip
> currently starts with 76.
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi John,
> >
> >Here are some random thoughts:
> >
> >I'm assuming you meant 100.42 on that last ip address.
> >
> >I've had similar problems with a small Linksys print server.
> >
> >* Make sure the WAN port on the dlink is wired to the LAN port on the
> >Motorola, if it has multiple ports.
> >* If the Dlink has a setting where you can set it to a specific
> >address, check if those numbers are empty.  You could set it to "use
> >specific address", empty the numbers or set to an ip that will never
> >exist on your network, save it, then reset it to dhcp.
> >* You could try resetting the dlink to factory defaults then resetting
> >the settings you need.
> >* You could try reflashing the firmware of the dlink.
> >* If you have other switches, pc's, or routers that serve dhcp, make
> >sure it's not talking to them.
> >* You could use another pc or router to see if those devices can get a
> >proper dhcp address from the Motorola.
> >* Power cycle the Motorola.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Ron
> >
> >
> >
> >John Pilman <jcpilman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I need a reality check on what I am seeing at home.  I have a Motorola
> >>Surfboard Modem that says it is setup to provide DHCP addressing in
> >the
> >>range 192.168.100.11 - 192.168.10.42.
> >>Downstream I have a Dlink wireless router that says its connection
> >type
> >>is
> >>DHCP and its WAN address is 24.99.228.229.
> >>
> >>I expected the Dlink router to have a WAN address in the above range.
> >I
> >>tried a few things, like releasing and renewing the connection on the
> >>router using the HTML menus, but I came back to the same thing.  The
> >>Surfboard does not look like it provides anything for me to configure.
> >>I
> >>can only get status information for it.
> >>
> >>Any thoughts?
> >>
> >>...John
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
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