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SSID sending odd addresses
Intermittently my appliances will be connected to my router with an address of 192.168.3.x. These connections will not get to the internet and occasionally I get a screen asking to login in to the se...
Thanks for your answwer.
I tried to access the odd address this morning. It didn't respond. As I said this is an intermittent problem. I will have to wait for it to act up again and see if I can determine the gizmo causing the problem.
BTW: the offending SSID is the same as my modem-router.
Thanks again
> BTW: the offending SSID is the same as my modem-router.
I figured that it must be, or else you wouldn't be talking to it.
If the extra DHCP server is on a wireless device, then my guess (and
it's purely a guess) is that some IoJ gizmo was previously informed of
your router's SSID and passphrase, so that it could join your normal
wireless network. Then it got confused, and activated its own little
hotspot, but remembered your normal credentials.
The details of that hypothesis could be completely wrong, but the
spurious/extra DHCP server is still my story, and I'm sticking to it.