[ale] [OT] router question

John Pilman jcpilman at gmail.com
Sun Aug 25 11:51:32 EDT 2013


Thanks, everyone for the input. I was not familiar with passthrough DHCP
and that makes a lot of sense.  I had to leave the house, so I unplugged
the router until I get back. When I get home I'll look again with more
information.

I can say it is Comcast, and I did give them the MAC ID when I connected
it.

...John
On Aug 25, 2013 11:23 AM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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