Access to sub network unreachable.

[Tosh]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 09 January 2009 03:43:11 Simon Slater wrote:
>> 	Hi all,
>> 		I'm sure I have missed something simple (or done something stupid) but
>> have no idea what so I'll ask anyhow.
>>
>> 	All the computers on our SOHO network had static addresses in the
>> 192.168.0.1-9 range with netmask of 255.255.255.0 and all worked fine
>> for ages.  Now I have a Linksys gateway which has a default address of
>> 192.168.1.1 for configuration.  It works fine as a DSL router but I
>> cannot use a browser to access the configuration.  All I get is "An
>> error occurred while loading http://192.168.1.1: Could not connect to
>> host."  Pinging returns "Destination Host Unreachable".
>>
>> 	I changed the netmask for the ethx device to 255.255.0.0 but this made
>> no difference.  What have I forgotten?
>>
> This is pretty normal.  Many routers are set to 192.168.1.1.  The simple way
> to deal with it is to change the ip of one of your boxes to 192.168.1.x and
> use that box to access the router.  Then you will be able to change the router
> address to 192.168.0.1.  Reboot.  You must then change your box back to
> 192.168.0.x  From then on your router can be configured through your normal
> browser without problems.
>
> Anne
>
maybe easier is to use the builtin dhcp to configure the router then go 
back to static as explained here above