[Wylug-help] What am I missing (router question)

[Shaun Laughey]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 21:28 +0100, Roger Greenwood wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2007 21:18, Lee Evans wrote:
> > Hi Roger,
> >
> > What you want to do is give your hub/wireless access point an IP on the
> > same subnet as your local machine [192.168.1.x]
> Thanks Lee,
> I was going to try this, tried to change the settings on the hub, but it all 
> went pear shaped and since then couldn't get access to the netgear hub!!
> 
> The hub is still on 192.168.0.7 i.e. it didn't change the settings as 
> requested - this I can see from ethereal.
> >

Have you tried adding a temporary ethernet address (an "ip-alias") to your machine so it can use both subnets.

e.g. ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.0.250

It's not a permanent solution but it will let you access both router and access point and configure them accordingly.


Shaun.