[Nottingham] Connecting to Ambit cablemodem

[Duncan John Fyfe]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 18:10 +0100, David Aldred wrote:
> In the course of troubleshooting something lately, I needed to access the 
> information pseudo-web pages on my cable modem.   The instructions were to 
> point a browser at http://192.168.100.1 and log in.
> 
> From a Linux machine (connected via ethernet cable to the router, which is 
> then connected to the cablemodem), this resulted in Firefox providing 
> a 'cannot establish a connection to the server' message.   MSIE running 
> within WINE also fails to connect. 
> 
> From a Windows machine, connected in the same way and also using Firefox, I 
> get the log in screen as expected.  MSIE also gets the log in screen.
> 
> Anyone know how to get the Linux machine to do what the Windows machine is 
> doing - and indeed why it doesn't in the first place?

Do you have a firewall enabled on Linux ?
If yes, make sure it is not preventing you from accessing
http://192.168.100.1.

Have fun,
Duncan