IP address confusion

[tomween1]

When I go through ipconfig I do not see the 9250's IP, rather I still see the IP of the home router. I can type either IP (192.168.1.1[router] or 192.168.1.2[9250]) in the web browser and be able to view which-ever I type in, so why aren't they both showing up in ipconfig? see attached

I am still not sure how to save my settings (AES) unplug and move to alternate location. Whenever I unplug the 9250 my link is gone and I need to push both aes buttons again. Again I ask, is this correct? What happens during a power failure?

[TrojanMan]

ipconfig only displays information about the network adapters on your computer. It is not for finding all the devices on your network.

Assuming that your network adapter TCP/IP setting is set to obtain IP automatically (DHCP client mode), then your DHCP server should provide the default gateway. This is the route that the network adapter will send traffic through, which for most home networks, like yours, is your router.

If you change the TCP/IP settings on the network adapter to use the following IP address (static), you will see that you can assign an IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway. Try keeping the same values of the IP and subnet but change the gateway, and then do an ipconfig. You will find that it will display the new default gateway.

For you second question, I think you mean the WPS button. Your client devices should create a wireless profile for each wireless network that they join. Perhaps the authentication information changes when power to the device is lost.

[sakendrick]

But shouldn't the default gateway represent the IP of the range expander if that's what you're actually connected to?

how can I confirm that I'm connecting to the 9250 and not just picking up the signal from my router?

Also - how do you access the 9250's admin console after initial setup? So my network is on 192.168.2.xxx. I just used the wizard to automatically configure the 9250. It seemed to recognize my network and appears to be working, but was I supposed to set a static IP for the expander (9250) to something within the 192.168.2.xxx range?

[tomween1]

But shouldn't the default gateway represent the IP of the range expander if that's what you're actually connected to?

how can I confirm that I'm connecting to the 9250 and not just picking up the signal from my router?

Also - how do you access the 9250's admin console after initial setup? So my network is on 192.168.2.xxx. I just used the wizard to automatically configure the 9250. It seemed to recognize my network and appears to be working, but was I supposed to set a static IP for the expander (9250) to something within the 192.168.2.xxx range?

sakendrick I gave up on this unit. No matter what I did it would drop signal. I tried many different times and at many different locations. At times I would have excellent acquisition, but then if I turned off the computer and later turned it back on, the signal would be lost. Played with it for 4 days and asked for help on many forums (non of which spoke highly of this unit). good luck

[sakendrick]

Thanks for the note although not encouragine .

I think I've finally got it working. My only challenge is that my PCs seem to default to the weaker signal. I have to reset the connection in order for them to pick up the extender... but I don't think that's an issue with the extender.

My biggest complaint so far is the lack of documentation, troubleshooting information, and community of users/activity. Hopefully I have better luck.

[sakendrick]

oh, and out of curiosity... did you get a different range extender and if so, which one? thanks

[tomween1]

oh, and out of curiosity... did you get a different range extender and if so, which one? thanks

This is what I went with Though more expensive they work amazingly! http://www.amazon.com/ZyXEL-HomePlug-Po ... 028&sr=8-8 One end plugs in near your modem and the second can be plugged in anywhere and at the second unit you can plug in your router.

[bryanmaviss]

While checking out my site stats to see how many people have visited, downloaded iQuotes, and how many people have accessed the RSS feed of quotes, I noticed that I had over 20,000 hits from one IP address. The next highest number of hits for one IP address is only 2,500, and the next 263.

Obviously, I felt compelled to find out who it was so I googled for IP address Trace and entered the address. The name came back as 17-202-13-240.apple.com. A traceroute tells me that it passes through San Jose at some point.

Now I don’t fully understand the IP address so I wondered if anyone could enlighten me on the significance of this.

Is it really Steve Jobs, sitting at his desk at 1 Infinite Loop reminiscing about the old times while watching my screensaver on his Intel Powerbook, or is there another explanation for this?

[ChadKevin]

I'm wanting to set up a network. I'm still confused as to how to set it up. I think the easiest design is to have a switch on my border router. On this switch will be the servers. Also attached to this switch will be an OpenBSD box. This will be a dedicated firewall. On it will be another switch. And the machines on the internal network will be attached to this switch. In the book "building Internet firewalls"(o'reilly) this set up is described as a screened subnet architecture. However the external interface on the OpenBSD dedicated firewall will have to get it's I.P via dhcp (192.168.1.*) from the border router. That or it can be a static I.P on the same subnet as the border routers dhcp range 192.168.1.*(but outside the dhcp range) but that would be trickier. The internal interface of this dedicated firewall would be static and on a different subnet as the external interface (192.168.2.*). Then this internal interface could give out I.Ps to the internal network that are on 192.168.2.*. If it did N.A.T for packets from the internal network. But then N.A.T would be being done twice; once by the OpenBSD dedicated firewall and once on the border router, before going off to the net.
Or is it a better approach to NOT do N.A.T on the OpenBSD firewall and have all I.Ps on the whole network assigned as static(outside of the border router's dhcp range, but all on the same subnet(192.168.1.*))?.
Basically is there any point in the OpenBSD box doing dhcp and N.A.T for hosts on the internal network?. I guess the answer is no. But i just wanted to hear your opinions, if you have the time.
The border router is a home router. I wanted to have a normal triple-homed dedicated firewall and put it in the border router's DMZ but it proved unpredictable and tricky. So i just wondered what the best I.P addressing scheme would be for my newer way.
Thank you for your time. And fare ye well
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[DANKOZ]

Access points and bridges reside on layers 1 and 2. Command prompt tools like IPconfig, traceRT, or pathping all work on Layer 3 (the networking layer), so you will not see anything on layer 1 or 2 when using these command prompt tools. It will only "see" routers.