Faulty router?

Fenster

I purchased a brand new D-Link DSL-G604T wireless router today. While it works fine for internet connections in mac/windows, any Linux machine I set to use it chokes (okay, it could be drivers for that...).

Besides that, it works fine wirelessly, except that I cannot access its configuration page (192.168.1.1). Pings, http requests, whatever, they all time out.

Would this be a sign that the router is broken?

Capt'n Midnight

Are you trying to access it from the WAN port or through wireless instead of through a LAN port ?
On many routers you can restrict access to LAN / USB.
On some you can screw up and lock yourself out in which case a reset is needed and then upload the config you stored earlier ( you did back it up )

Fenster

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Are you trying to access it from the WAN port or through wireless instead of through a LAN port ?
On many routers you can restrict access to LAN / USB.
On some you can screw up and lock yourself out in which case a reset is needed and then upload the config you stored earlier ( you did back it up )

I can't access its configuration to start with, from either my laptop (wireless), or from my PC (plugged directly into it).

However, wireless internet works fine if I daisy-chain it into my Netopia router.

Capt'n Midnight

It's got to the stage that on one remote side I've setup the server with a second IP range on the default subnet of the router. When is becomes pearoid, I ring up and ask them to press in the reset button, then I can upload the old config to 192.168.1.1 , point being cheap routers aren't rock solid.

Do a tracert to confirm the IP address, also try the old power off for 30 seconds. If all else fails factory reset, but only when you can live without the internet for howerver long it takes to get it setup again .

Fenster

Lessee..

Traceroute finds the packet going to Dubling and then timing out. Netstat seems to show the wireless router acting "transparently", with all traffic going in and out of my machine going through my Netopia router.

hostyle

Is IPv6 loaded on the linux box? Try disabling it and see if theres any change.

Fenster

Well I replaced the router earlier today with a new one-a British Telecom Voyager 1500-89.

Once again, I've an identical problem-I can't connect to the router to configure it, this time to 192.168.1.250, while my laptop picks it up perfectly and uses it for internet access (better signal, even, than the D-Link router). A traceroute has the ping going to Dublin and then timing out.

This was tested in Windows 2000 SP4, OS X 10.4.1 and Gentoo Linux, 2.6.12 kernel, between two machines, a desktop physically plugged into it and the laptop connecting wirelessly.

Fenster

Something of a fiddly situation, but I got it working to my likings in the end. It seems that in "access point" mode, the router acts invisibly-pings and traceroutes sent to it are redirected to the internet.

The router doesn't seem to like Eircom broadband (or vice versa?) when I connected the DSL line to it directly, so I've had to daisy-chain it with the Netopia router, change my security settings in "router" mode and then switch it to "access point". At this point my internet worked fine, and was secured.

As I said, its a fiddly situation, but it works for me.