Whew! [TCLUG:19758] Configuring 675 modem

[George M Swan III <g-swan@maroon.tc.umn.edu> (George Swan)]

Somehow I've managed to configure this 675 without
   using a serial connection to set password and change
   the inside address that's receiving the commands to change
   the inside address that's receiving the commands.... etc. etc.
         ... beats me!  I don't know what I did.

gs

> George Swan wrote:
> > 
> > JFYI:  The pingy-thingy goes
> > 
> > c:\>ping 10.0.0.1
> > 
> > Pinging 10.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
> > 
> > Reply from 192.168.30.21: Destination net unreachable.
> > Request timed out.
> > Request timed out.
> > Request timed out.
> > c:\>
> > 
> > What does that "Reply from 192.168.30.21" mean?  That's not the assigned
> > external IP, nor either of the DNS's, nor... is it anywhere in a file on
> > c:\ ... so  (big guess on my part here) does that mean it's on the eth-card
> > or in the modem?  Where else do I look to change this?  (The dhcp(?) ip
> > >from the dial-up connection I'm on????)
> 
> 192.168.30.21 is probably your gateway, or a host a few hops upstream. 
> Since (I assume) your ethernet card is not configured with a 10.x.y.z
> address, you cannot ping the router directly.  You have to (temporarily)
> change your IP address to be 10.0.0.2/255.0.0.0 or something similar in
> order to talk to the router.
> 
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