new wrt54g user questions
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Thu Jan 10 13:07:08 UTC 2008
R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Any computers on your network which use DHCP from the router will be
> shown in the admin or status pages of the router, using
> http://192.168.0.1 in a browser to get to the router's admin functions.
I'm not sure if this is a related question,
but I am using a WRT54GL, running dd-wrt, as an Access Point.
(It is connected to my desktop,
which in turn is connected to my ADSL modem.)
My problem is getting the WRT54GL to accept a given laptop (using WiFi).
It accepts some laptops, and when this happens it works beautifully.
The laptop MAC address is then listed on the router web-pages, as you say.
But other laptops simply will not connect through the router.
(There is never any problem with ethernet connections.)
Is there some way of adding a MAC address to the router?
I'm running dhcpd on my desktop.
It's not really clear to me how the request from a laptop
gets through the router to the desktop.
To get concrete, here is the entry in /var/log/messages on the desktop
for a successful WiFi link:
------------------------------
Jan 7 21:18:06 alfred dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.2.4 (192.168.2.1)
from 00:15:00:16:2a:ea via eth1
Jan 7 21:18:06 alfred dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.2.4
to 00:15:00:16:2a:ea via eth1
------------------------------
The router, whose address is 192.168.2.12, is not mentioned.
The desktop is at 192.168.2.1, the laptop at 192.168.2.4.
Any advice or enlightenment gratefully received.
--
Timothy Murphy
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