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WNCE2001 inappropriately providing DHCP connections
I have a new WNCE2001 Wireless Ethernet bridge and have successfully configured it to connect my ethernet-only printer to my home network. This morning, I was unable to get to the internet from my iP...
Hi!
Got my little box a week ago and it still is working. Have not set it to full use yet. It will run 24/7 so we will se how that works out
Made som observations that might help someone.
The box does for suse contain a DHCP server that serves 192.168.1.0/24 network. It is from my understanding only in use during initial setup. Aftre that it will be off.
When box is setup and connected it will acuire a ip for itself from your standard DHCP server so you can access the advanced config interface/webserver in the box. You can access this from anywhere in you local network if you now the ip. The www.mywifiext.net can only be used from the connected computer which means that the box does some sort of DNS intervention for this to work. The connected computer gets the dns server info from the DHCP setup and that does for sure not contain any info on the URL :-)
Furthermore i tested to disconnect the computer and after a couple of minutes the box disonnects from my AP and the red lamp lights up on the box. When reconnecting the cable it reconnects to my AP and we have green lights again and ok connections.
Hope this can be usefull for someone.
Got my little box a week ago and it still is working. Have not set it to full use yet. It will run 24/7 so we will se how that works out
Made som observations that might help someone.
The box does for suse contain a DHCP server that serves 192.168.1.0/24 network. It is from my understanding only in use during initial setup. Aftre that it will be off.
When box is setup and connected it will acuire a ip for itself from your standard DHCP server so you can access the advanced config interface/webserver in the box. You can access this from anywhere in you local network if you now the ip. The www.mywifiext.net can only be used from the connected computer which means that the box does some sort of DNS intervention for this to work. The connected computer gets the dns server info from the DHCP setup and that does for sure not contain any info on the URL :-)
Furthermore i tested to disconnect the computer and after a couple of minutes the box disonnects from my AP and the red lamp lights up on the box. When reconnecting the cable it reconnects to my AP and we have green lights again and ok connections.
Hope this can be usefull for someone.