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Two router address question

Boston · 2003-09-20 17:23:18

hmm title is probably abite off but anyway. I just bought mysef and ADSL/Modem/router single port, to connect of to my existing router/switch thing is both are programed usign a web rowser and both use 192.168.0.1 as their address, how do i resolve this problem of them both using the same address.

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20-09-2003 6:23pm

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hmm title is probably abite off but anyway. I just bought mysef and ADSL/Modem/router single port, to connect of to my existing router/switch thing is both are programed usign a web rowser and both use 192.168.0.1 as their address, how do i resolve this problem of them both using the same address.

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#2 20-09-2003 6:38pm
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Give one of them a different IP address.

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#3 20-09-2003 6:40pm
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How, probably really simple, just i havent even connected them up yet, untill my adsl is installed.

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#4 20-09-2003 6:42pm
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Just change the IP address on the ethernet interface of one of them.
You don't have to use the default IPs that devices are assigned.

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#5 20-09-2003 6:43pm
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so connect up one of them, use the webbrowser interface to change its IP address then connect up the other? this is what i had planned to do

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#6 20-09-2003 6:46pm
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Yeah, just change one of them to 192.168.0.2 or some other address that's not in use.
What is the current router/switch you have?

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#7 20-09-2003 8:25pm
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linksys 8 port. modem/router is a netgear

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