Re: Dude, where's my router?

"Peter B. Steiger" <see.sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

Whoops! And there I was patting myself on the back for providing every
possible environmental detail that could possibly matter. It's a 1.1.

Note that many manufacturers use the same product model number but
with different hardware version numbers to distinguish radically
different internal construction, usually from different vendors. The
reason is so that the new and the old boxes look the same to the
customer and to the dealer. This way, there is no old/new inventory
changeover hassle, where the dealer returns old inventory claiming
it's obsolete and unsellable.

I can't blame you for being skeptical. I'm in the support business
myself, and over 20 years I have lost count of the number of times I have
had to say "No, don't type the word SPACE (or ASTERISK or ENTER)..."

Quite old (1983 thru about 1994) but still applicable:
<http://www.LearnByDestroying.com/nooze/support.txt>

All of a sudden it hit me, my LAN has static IP addresses of
192.168.169.* . Even though I punched a hole in the firewall and added a
route specifically to 192.168.1.1, I was still on a different subnet.

Ouch. That's why I posted the URL of how to do the TFTP upload. It
included instructions for resetting the client IP address to the same
IP block as the router. I assumed[1] that you had the test client
plugged directly into the Linksys LAN port and was getting a DHCP
assigned IP address. I should have asked for the output of IPCONFIG
which would have shown the wrong gateway IP.

Anyhoo, thanks again for giving me lots of stuff to try if this ever
happens again.

Note that the bulk of my diagnostics revolved around watching the
flashing lights. I sometimes take photos or video clips of how the
boxes should look when operating normally.

Since you pointed me to openwrt is that your preference?

No. I prefer DD-WRT v23 SP2 (or SP3) or v24beta. DD-WRT is far more
HTML driven than OpenWRT, which requires some file editing and command
line incantations. Under the admin pages, they're very similar if not
identical. For my own use, I would probably go with OpenWRT, but I
use what I inflict on my customers, which is DD-WRT.

wrt54g-linux sounds good because it installs in the RAM section so I
don't have to worry that I'm permanently trashing the only good copy of
the factory defaults.

I haven't tried that for a while. It was deemed unsuitable because
everything would disappear if the power failed. Ideally, I would
like one with "pluggable" firmware (USB dongle or SD card) or perhaps
a TFTP OS boot (which I use on my thin clients). However, there's so
little FLASH and RAM to work with in the typical WRT54G, that I'm
happy with what can be done with DD-WRT. Incidentally, I have yet to
have any customer demand that I reinstall the original Linksys or
Buffalo firmware.

[1] Assumption. The mother of all screwups.

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