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  1. merl

    cannot log in to (or even find with certainty) linksys EA9500 after turning off DHCP server

    OK I think I have solved the mystery. tl;dr You must configure the linksys as "bridge mode". I did a hard reset and reconfigured it to the way it was before, but it would not connect to the internet at all this time - the main router would not give it an IP either by static IP or DHCP. Then...
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    cannot log in to (or even find with certainty) linksys EA9500 after turning off DHCP server

    Thanks for the reply Paul. I will probably get around to resetting it. Yes, maybe it is not unusual that there is no arp entry. But does it not seem odd that the router is not visible, given that they usually are (for the three or four others that I have had in this configuration) and can be...
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    cannot log in to (or even find with certainty) linksys EA9500 after turning off DHCP server

    Ah Captain, if only it were that simple... :) Here is the weirdness from the Huawei side: the router does not show up in the list of connected devices. It is working, and all its clients both wired and wifi are listed, but it does not itself have an entry. I tried statically assigning it an...
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    cannot log in to (or even find with certainty) linksys EA9500 after turning off DHCP server

    Thanks for the replies. Yes I guess the linksys is just an AP (with its own SSID) Linksys is connected by LAN port to the main router. I have attempted to access (i) via linksys wifi, (ii) via cable to linksys, (iii) via main router wifi. Once the house is quiet I'll try disconnecting it...
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    cannot log in to (or even find with certainty) linksys EA9500 after turning off DHCP server

    I got a free new router from my ISP - a Huawei echolife box, so I moved my previously problem-free main router linksys EA9500 to be a secondary router (replacing a much older one), and turned off its DHCP server as per normal. It seems to work OK both wired and wifi, but the white bars on the...
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    stock linksys EA9500 how to create subnet to another (VPN) router

    Thanks for the reply. I'm connecting a netgear n600 running a newly installed openwrt. I can't imagine the problem should come from there. https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/wndr3700.aspx Thanks for the suggestion to try and change the main router address instead...
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    stock linksys EA9500 how to create subnet to another (VPN) router

    Hi Disclaimer: inexperienced with networks. I am posting here since although there is no wifi involved in the topic the question may be specific to features of linksys wifi routers. I'm trying to set up a VPN router (plan: using wireguard on Openwrt). But before I can get into the VPN stuff...
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    N66U - issues with USB drives

    Hi I've been having long-running problems with frequent errors on a 2.5" USB drive (WD My Book 1.5TB I think) connected to my N66U (recent merlin build). I tried switching from FAT32 to EXT3 but it made no difference. I presumed that it was just a faulty drive. Now I have swapped it out for...
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    380.57 on N66U: problems with voip/sip phone

    Changelog for 380.58 (20-Mar-2016) includes something which might be the cause: - FIXED: Diasbling the SIP NAT helper would also drop all port 5060 traffic. Some users need to keep the SIP helper disabled with their SIP client. Reverted that GPL 858 change. Not...
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    Oops - open ports galore

    [Solved] Just got a public IP from my ISP (previously it was behind NAT) and now when I portscan my N66U box from outside loads of stuff is open (listed below). Sure I have forwarded a torrent port in my network, and set up some dropbox app and torrent in the router (via entware), but I really...
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    380.57 on N66U: problems with voip/sip phone

    Switching to 380.57 on my N66U and my voip/sip phone stopped working. The phone just said "registration failed" If is just a gigaset ip phone connected via a statically assigned IP with no port forwarding. I couldnt see anything which might be causing the phone to fail to register with the...
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