Access to sub network unreachable.

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Jan 9 19:37:48 UTC 2009


Simon Slater wrote:
> 	Hi all,
> 		I'm sure I have missed something simple (or done something stupid) but
> have no idea what so I'll ask anyhow.
> 
> 	All the computers on our SOHO network had static addresses in the
> 192.168.0.1-9 range with netmask of 255.255.255.0 and all worked fine
> for ages.  Now I have a Linksys gateway which has a default address of
> 192.168.1.1 for configuration.  It works fine as a DSL router but I
> cannot use a browser to access the configuration.  All I get is "An
> error occurred while loading http://192.168.1.1: Could not connect to
> host."  Pinging returns "Destination Host Unreachable".
> 
> 	I changed the netmask for the ethx device to 255.255.0.0 but this made
> no difference.  What have I forgotten?
> 
> 	Thanks

I would change the router IP address if it is possible.  I can on my D-Link.

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