Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Jul 20 16:36:05 CDT 2006
On 20 Jul 2006 at 10:18, Jim Dettman wrote: > > <<They brought > in a Linksys today to replace it. When they went to set up the DHCP server, > on it, it turned out to be hard coded to use 192.168.1.xxx. >> > > I haven't seen a router yet that is hardwired to use a specific subnet > (kind of defeats the purpose of being a router<g>). Your missing something. > Possibly, I didn't spend much time on it - I'm not responsible for this network, I just "stickybeaked" the supplier's two techs (yep, they sent out *two* guys to replace a SOHO type WAP/Router) when my network connection went down and I found these guys changing the WAP/Router. Initially, they were all set to pack up and go and hadn't even set it up as a DHCP server (typical of the levels of service in a country like this) -- Stuart