[vox-tech] connecting to DSL modem

Ryan cjg5ehir02 at sneakemail.com
Sun Oct 15 22:34:53 PDT 2006


On Sunday 15 October 2006 09:03 pm, p-at-dirac.org \(Peter Jay Salzman\) 
|lugod| wrote:
> Supposedly, I should be able to connect to the webserver on my Westell 6100
> DSL modem via:
>
>    http://192.168.1.1
>
> But the page never loads.  I tried adding a local 192.168 network (so that
> my request for 192.168.1.1 doesn't go out onto the net):
>
>    $ route -n
>    Kernel IP routing table
>    Destination     Gateway       Genmask        Flags Metric Ref  Iface
>    66.114.79.0     0.0.0.0       255.255.255.0  U     0      0    eth0
>    192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0       255.255.0.0    U     0      0    eth0
>    0.0.0.0         66.114.79.1   0.0.0.0        UG    0      0    eth0

Does the modem respond to ping?

If not, after failing to reply to your ping, is there a MAC address listed 
for it in /proc/net/arp?  If not, can you ping/load the web page after adding 
a static arp entry for it (man arp, and the mac address is probably printed 
on it)

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