IP problems

[threetonesun]

Hey, I must have messed something up somewhere along the line that wasn't a problem until now. Normal http addresses work fine, but numerical ones do not. This is a problem now because I need to connect to my router, and 192.168.1.1 doesn't work. I know it's not just the router, because I tried other IP addresses and got the same problem. Anyone know what's up?

[cpugeniusmv]

curious....

try to ping 127.0.0.1, also your local network IP address...maybe even your internet IP address

[threetonesun]

Yeah, that works fine, instant response and no loss. I just can't get it to connect in a web browser.

[cpugeniusmv]

OH, okay...i reread the question....

did you have an http:// in front?

[threetonesun]

No, and since it's going through a browser I don't think that's the problem. And I tried firebird/IE, and none of my network settings should be strange, it's just a simple ethernet connection.

One thing I'm thinking now is I've gotten this to work before, but since them I fiddled with shutting off some of XPs services. Would one of them be responsible for this problem?

[Gibwar]

Whenever you go to a numerical address e.g. 192.168.0.1 or something, you MUST have http:// in front of it - otherwise IE will return a page not found error. So to access your router you MUST have http://192.168.1.1 - hope this helps.

-jbenhm

[nvme]

  jbenhm said:

Whenever you go to a numerical address e.g. 192.168.0.1 or something, you MUST have http:// in front of it - otherwise IE will return a page not found error. So to access your router you MUST have http://192.168.1.1 - hope this helps.

-jbenhm

actually, no you dont HAVE to have http:// in front of it in ie... it will do it for you.

[threetonesun]

yeah, it's definately not an issue of whether or not the http:// is there, I've tried it both ways even though it shouldn't matter in the first place.

[nvme]

did you say you could ping the router?

[zivan56]

Have you tried doing a factory reset of the router?

[clifford]

Depending on what type of router you have, you can probably get to the router's configuration by opening a telnet session to the router's IP. You could also try adding an entry to your computers hosts file, something like: "192.168.0.1 router.local" To track down the problem with your computer, try the command "telnet 192.168.0.1 80" If you get a blank command window, you are connecting to the router successfully via port 80, if not you'll get an error message.

[clifford]

  clifford said:

..."192.168.0.1 router.local" ..."telnet 192.168.0.1 80"...

Sorry, the IP should be "192.168.1.1", not "192.168.0.1"

[threetonesun]

  clifford said:

Depending on what type of router you have, you can probably get to the router's configuration by opening a telnet session to the router's IP. You could also try adding an entry to your computers hosts file, something like: "192.168.0.1 router.local" To track down the problem with your computer, try the command "telnet 192.168.0.1 80" If you get a blank command window, you are connecting to the router successfully via port 80, if not you'll get an error message.

I got an error message. I still can't figure out if it's me or the router, but I've set up a different router on this computer with no problem before.

I'm thinking its the router now, I booted up Redhat and still couldn't connect, which means it isn't any of my Windows settings.

[idbuythatforadollar]

you just installed a firewall on your machine or something?

[clifford]

  threetonesun said:

I got an error message. I still can't figure out if it's me or the router, but I've set up a different router on this computer with no problem before.

I'm thinking its the router now, I booted up Redhat and still couldn't connect, which means it isn't any of my Windows settings.

Considering you get the same results in 2 different OS, I would have to agree that it's probably your router causing the problem. I would recommend unplugging any other devices from the router, unplugging the router's power supply from the power outlet, waiting about 30 seconds, then plugging the router's power back in with only your computer connected to it. If you get the same results, you might have to try the factory reset.

[threetonesun]

3 factory restarts and then, bam, it works. I'm pretty disappointed in Linksys, I had a netgear router that worked perfectly, but whatever, this was free.

Thanks for all the suggestions.