Linksys G Router

I had a headache of a time getting a friend's new laptop with Vista to
connnect with his hope computer with XP Pro using Remote Desktop. I could
not get into the Linksys to set port forwarding and finally realized it was
set for 192.168.2.1 instead of 192.168.1.1.

I am not well versed on these things but curious why whoever set it up would
use this instead of the default.

"Don Harvey" <moark1@swbell.net> hath wroth:

>I had a headache of a time getting a friend's new laptop with Vista to
>connnect with his hope computer with XP Pro using Remote Desktop. I could
>not get into the Linksys to set port forwarding and finally realized it was
>set for 192.168.2.1 instead of 192.168.1.1.
>
>I am not well versed on these things but curious why whoever set it up would
>use this instead of the default.

Answering questions is much easier if you would kindly disclose the
Linksys router model number.

Assuming this was done intentionally, it may be because:
1. VPN requires that the local network class-c IP block be different
from the destination IP block. If one is connecting into a corporate
LAN at 192.168.1.xxx, then the local network could be 192.168.2.xxx.

2. It may have been the result of someone returning the router and
not resetting the settings. I make it a point of punching the reset
button and resetting to defaults when I get a new router. Returns are
far to common.

3. The selection of 192.168.2.1 may have been to replace a Beklin
router, which uses 192.168.2.1.

However, something is odd here. Unless you're trying to setup your
wireless network with static IP addresses, you should not need to
juggle or even look at IP addresses.

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"Don Harvey" <moark1@swbell.net> wrote in message
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>I had a headache of a time getting a friend's new laptop with Vista to
>connnect with his hope computer with XP Pro using Remote Desktop. I could
>not get into the Linksys to set port forwarding and finally realized it was
>set for 192.168.2.1 instead of 192.168.1.1.
>
> I am not well versed on these things but curious why whoever set it up
> would use this instead of the default.
>

Gosh, I change the default Gateway with every router that I setup. I think
of it as one more step to subvert the hackers. If someone that does not
know what they are doing, they will first attack 192.168.1.1 . I think
that if they are sniffing, I am going to make them run through the gambit.

Dave H.

Thanks Dave, Jeff

It is a Linksys WRT54g on a home network with 2 computers. He bought a
laptop and wanted to access via RemoteDesktop.

Never messed with this stuff very much. Only other thing I did on my office
computer was change the default port from 3389 and also added security.
Never looked at the default gateway and now going to take a look at that
also.


"DH" <xxxdaveoh@swbell.net(axe the x's)> wrote in message
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>
> "Don Harvey" <moark1@swbell.net> wrote in message
> news:X68gi.7462$bP5.4567@newssvr19.news.prodigy.ne t...
>>I had a headache of a time getting a friend's new laptop with Vista to
>>connnect with his hope computer with XP Pro using Remote Desktop. I could
>>not get into the Linksys to set port forwarding and finally realized it
>>was set for 192.168.2.1 instead of 192.168.1.1.
>>
>> I am not well versed on these things but curious why whoever set it up
>> would use this instead of the default.
>>
>
> Gosh, I change the default Gateway with every router that I setup. I
> think of it as one more step to subvert the hackers. If someone that does
> not know what they are doing, they will first attack 192.168.1.1 . I
> think that if they are sniffing, I am going to make them run through the
> gambit.
>
> Dave H.
>