IP changed when I moved the cable, how do I get back to original IP?

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antinode wrote:

> [...] I was able to get the Nas up and running again [...]

 

   Did you find its actual model number, so that the rest of us might be
able to read along?

 

>> I did and it is an RN104/ReadyNas 100 Series 4-Bay model.

 

> [...] (Yes, it has two ethernet ports) [...]

 

   I can believe that, but why using both would be helpful in your case
is not immediately obvious.  But that's not the immediate concern.

 

>> I had intentions of bonding the two together to get faster transfer

speed but upon reading forum posts years ago when setting this up,

I was apprehensive to try it due to an actual slowing of speed, for

what reason that may happen I never found an answer. And, it was

also stated that it was hard to undue the bonding. One day I may

look into this again.

 

> [...] I connected one end of an ethernet cable to the 'Internet' port
> of the router.and the other to my ethernet port on my laptop. [...]

 

   I would not expect that to work.  The router _LAN_ Ethernet ports are
where you should connect a client device like your (unspecified) "my
laptop" (or your (unspecified) NAS).

 

>> Yeah, I think that is what originally had me spinning my wheels

and I was getting nowhere. After several attempts I remembered

that was not the correct port to connect to.

> [...] I then typed in the browser, 192.168.1.2. [...]

 

   I would not expect that to be the (LAN) IP address of the router.
More likely, that would be the address of your (unspecified) "my
laptop".

 

>> The laptop I am using is an HP Envy model, Intel i7,

8gb ram, 64bit, Windows 8.1, Touch screen, 1TB SSD.

For however I set all this up in my network years ago

with this FIOS Actiontec router at the time, the Netgear

WNDR4000/N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router

was getting an IP of 192.168.1.2 and has stayed this way.

 

> [...] the FIOS router [...]

 

   Still not a very detailed description of that device, but it seems
likely to be more accurate than "modem".

 

>> It was an Actiontec model before it was upgraded to the

newer FIOS-G1100 Quantum model.

> [...] connecting the laptop to one of the router's ethernet ports and
> browsing to 192.168.1.1 [...]

 

   That would have a much better chance or doing something useful.

 

>> This provided the magic to make things happen finally after

getting the connections right. I could not locate any docs

to show or tell me how to do this. Maybe it is on the Netgear

site but where.

 

> [...] I will next plug in the router to the D-Link switch after
> placing this router at the front of my house as I had originally started
> off to do before I got into trouble. [...]

 

   You seem to have gotten the WNDR4000 back to its original condition,
which is good.

 

>> Yes and I mounted it up high on a wall in the garage near the

center of my house where I will next switch the new Genie garage

door opener, a Wi-Fi model, of which you can see in notifications

if your door is open or closed, and some other features.

I also will switch the Yale Nest lock on the front door to this router

if it begins going offline like it had been doing a couple of weeks ago,

for which I went through many days of hell trying to figure that problem

out. I left it alone for two days and after optimizing my router SSID channels

to not interfere with the neighbors or vice versa, it came back online and

has stayed online. Keeping my fingers crossed on that. I digress though.

Forgive me.

 

> [...] Hopefully after moving and plugging this router into my switch
> everything will be good to go and we can close this discussion.

 

   Optimists are so cute.

 

   I assume that your (unspecified) "the FIOS router" provides your
Internet connection, and that you've connected one of its LAN ports to
one of the ports on your "my D-Link eight port switch", and that you
have some computers and/or other gizmos connected to "the FIOS router"
directly and/or to the switch.  Which should all be harmless.

 

>> You assume correctly

   The next problem will arise when you add the WNDR4000 to this
arrangement.  If you simply connect the WAN/Internet port of the
WNDR4000 to one of the ports on your switch (or directly to a LAN port
on the main router -- they're practically equivalent), then, by default,
the WNDR4000 will create its own little subnet, and you can expect
trouble with communication between devices which are connected to the
LAN side of the WNDR4000-as-router, and devices which are connected to
the LAN of main router.  If you try it, then I'd expect you to see a
whole different set of IP addresses on the WNDR4000 LAN ("10.0.0.*", not
"192.168.1.*").

 

>> I do understand what you are saying but, I am have only connected

one of the LAN ports to the switch and am only going to use the

WNDR4000 as another wireless access point with a different SSID

as I had been doing in the past. That is, other than I did have the two

ethernet ports of the NAS connected to that router due to not having

any switch at the time when I set up the NAS some years back.

 

I did move those two NAS cables to the switch and when I booted the

NAS it came back up as before using the same IP's it originally was 

using. I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that yesterday morning.

 

   If you want all your devices to talk to each other on one
big/extended LAN, then you'll need to configure the WNDR4000 as a
wireless access point.  Sadly, as I read the WNDR4000 User Manual, it
doesn't have a convenient one-step option to let you do that.  That
doesn't make it impossible, but it does make it rather complicated.
(And you thought that what you'd already done was educational.)  There's
a step-by-step for this here:

 

>> That is a good point and I want to do that someday.

Thanks for that link below. I will read though it and see

what I can.

 

      https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1463500

 

That's written for a C6300-as-WAP, but the steps are about the same for
any other router (any make/model) which lacks a one-step WAP option.  It
does require you to do a little work on the main router, too.

 

>> I believe I have to change the option in the FIOS G-1100 to

'Bridge' mode. Not sure at the moment but I think I read that

recently somewhere.

 

   Many newer Netgear (and other) routers have more convenient WAP
configuration options, so you might have less trouble with something
other than a WNDR4000 in this role.  In the User Manual for a Netgear
router, look for a section title like, "Set up the router as a WiFi [or
'wireless'] access point".  For more helpful pictures, fetch the R7000
User Manual, and look there.

 

   I'll bet that this sounded easy when you started out

 

>> Of course. It always does doesn't it. :) Good day, sir and

we can close this case I think.

 

 

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