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IP Address Stuck
I have a ReadyNAS Ultra 4 that has served me well over the years. I recently moved into a new apartment and had to change Internet Service Providersd as a result (From Cablevision/Optimum to Comcast/...
Already tried that. The Comcast router does have DHCP enabled and has assigned IPs to all the the devices on my network except the Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 4 (and yes, it is configured to automatically obtain its network settings from DHCP).
And as much as I would like to use my own router, that's not an option with Comcast.
Do you have a different router you can temporarily use for this purpose?
Sounds like something isn't right with the comcast one. If you didn't care about what was on it then it'd be a different story but I'd try a different router. Some routers behave badly. I know with my router I can't get to my motorola modem stats page and it's a common problem for a certain model cisco router.
If the NAS can't get a DHCP address, it fails over to 192.168.168.168. What status (and IP address) is RAIDar telling you?
FWIW, if the address is 192.168.0.100, then likely the default gateway would be 192.168.0.1. So that would be a bad IP address to set the laptop to. Maybe try 192.168.0.101, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
No need for a crossover cable btw.
BTW, did you mean to say you did an OS reinstall?
RAIDar wasn't seeing the NAS at all. Doing the non-destructive OS reinstall caused the ip address to be set somewhere near the middle of the 192.168.0 range. I didn't find that out until I connected the NAS and my laptop to another router that happened to be using the 192,168.0.x address range and RAIDar finally saw it. I was able to reserve and set a static IP on the NAS to match the new Comcast router (after I backed everything up off the NAS just in case something went wrong that might lock me out of it and force me to do a Factory Install from the NAS Boot Menu).
Glad it's finally working on the new network now....
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