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arldent3300's avatar
arldent3300
Aspirant
Jan 01, 2017

Lan TCP/IP Setup

Help please.  I tried to change the IP address in the LAN Setup, LAN TCP/IP Setup to a different number, clicked "apply", sat there and waited for a good five minutes and nothing, absolutely NOTHING happened.  Clicked "cancel" and it responded immediately.  Tried several times with no success and this is not my first time setting up a new router or network either. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

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  • ebizman's avatar
    ebizman
    Aspirant
    Mar 08, 2017
    Same deal here on my Orbi. Cannot change the default private LAN IP address. "Apply" does not apply/submit the form. Need to change this as I have some reserved internal addresses.
  • epottercg's avatar
    epottercg
    Aspirant
    Mar 09, 2017

    I have a workaround. The issue seems to be that Javascript isn't listening for the button click for whatever reason. Here's how to force the page to submit:

     

    (Tested with FF but might be able to translate these instructions into Chrome, etc)

     

    1. Fill out the form as required by your set up.
    2. Use the developer console (right-click, inspect element) to find the <form> element in the page. This is the form that wraps your input.
    3. Right click the <form> tag in the DOM window
    4. Select 'Use in console'
    5. This will open the JS console with a variable 'temp0' entered into the prompt. Pressing return on the prompt should print the <form> html.
    6. Enter into the prompt the name of the variable you were given, followed by a call to the method 'submit'. For instance: temp0.submit()
    7. Press return. Your new IP address space will be submitted.

     

     

    • Retired_Member's avatar
      Retired_Member
      Mar 17, 2017

      Thanks a lot for writing these instructions - what a pain just to be able to submit a buggy form!

       

      Unfortunately I couldn't get the last two steps of your instructions to work :( Firefox displays the variable name, and if I press Enter it displays the form element in the HTML, but if I then add .submit to the end of the variable name, nothing happens still :(

       

      Running 1.8.0.6 of the Orbi firmware.

       

      I can't believe this button isn't hooked up properly (nor why router configs insist on lots of crazy JavaScript instead of simple HTML forms) and it's preventing me from getting my Orbi to swap out my previous router without having to reconfigure everything on the network.

       

      Help! :(

      • ebizman's avatar
        ebizman
        Aspirant
        Mar 17, 2017

        +1

         

        I just submitted a ticket for this issue and suggest all of you do the same - squeaky wheel.  This should be an easy fix.   Perhaps the default 192.168.1.1 scheme is fine for most folks, however, I have a lot of devices on my network and several (printers, IP cameras, etc.) have reserved IP addresses and this is a real pain.