Access Point problem

[John Austin]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:03 +1000, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:16:13 -0500, Claude Jones wrote
> > Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > The two addresses you give are in two different subnets.  Most APs I
> > > have seen default to the first address in the subnet defined on the LAN
> > > side.  In you case you might try 192.168.2.1 as the address oof the AP.
> > > 
> > > Or if it is following what you indicate the default should be try
> > > 192.168.2.50.
> > > 
> > > Baring that you will have to see about a hard reset which should reset
> > > the device back to factory defaults at which point the address should be
> > > 192.168.0.50 and have the default password info.
> > > 
> > > Normally there is a reset button, small hole with a switch that you
> > > reach with a paperclip reset device.  
> > >
> > 
> > Thanks for your help, Scot. I think I covered your points in my 
> > previous   reply to Rick.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Claude Jones
> > Bluemont, VA, USA
> 
> Have you thought of changing your subnet mask to 255.255.0.0. As this seemed
> to fix a problem for me a few months ago. I goto Game LANS, and I supply two
> of the Game Servers. The gamers are on the 192.168.0.x subnet, and the servers
> are on 192.168.2.x subnet. They can all connect to the servers ok, BUT, I
> couldn't connect to the NFS shares on the two servers, from my system which
> was on the 192.168.0.x subnet. By changing my subnet mask to that, what I
> mentioned above, allowed me to access these NFS shares on the Servers.
> 
> It's worth a shot.
> 
> Wolf
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Hi
Its useful to use an alias for connecting to a network device with a
fixed IP address after a reset.
The editor has folded the command line !

ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.49 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
192.168.0.255


John