Mac os x device discovery?

[captaindunsel]

Currently have my rt n66u in access mode. I need to change a setting and I can't without a way to find router. Is there a way to do this on os x? I have searched high and far without an answer. If this has been answered already please excuse my inability to find it.

 

[huotg01]

Currently have my rt n66u in access mode. I need to change a setting and I can't without a way to find router. Is there a way to do this on os x? I have searched high and far without an answer. If this has been answered already please excuse my inability to find it.

Do you mean the RT-N66U is set as an access point ? I probably misunderstand your question, but usually you can access the router at the address 192.168.1.1 ? What else is on your network ?

GH

 

[captaindunsel]

Mac os x device discovery

Yes it is in access point mode. I needed to have full cone in ichat to connect to a few people and screen sharing from Imessage. My motherboard has dual lan so i enabled internet sharing between the dual lans and connected the wire from the modem to en0 and connected the other lan to the rt-n66u to en1. It worked but i was unable to connect to the the modem. In windows there is a utility for this... none for mac

 

[captaindunsel]

Mac os x device discovery

Ok thanks to everybody that took a look at this..it was not an easy thing to find but I did find a solution to the problem. great forum! Thanks to Merlin for his hard work.

 

[rico567]

I hate to state the obvious, but if you announce a resolution to the original question, could you possibly state what that resolution might be?

 

[captaindunsel]

I entered into terminal netstat -ra and in the output was the IP address of the rt-n66u . It worked in my situation as i was using Internet sharing on my dual LAN ............ As always ymmv.........

 

[saulos]

Hi captaindunsel,
"netstat -ra" bring a lot of information mostly not needed to find the router as a standard configuration router is the default gateway.
If you use
"netstat -rn | grep UG"
you will get the IP of the gateway, all in one line.
Netstat is a very usefull command but it brings too many info, with grep you display only what is needed
In any case for MAC OS the reference page is :
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/netstat.1.html

 

[captaindunsel]

Yes I was looking at that library page on netstat command. I will experiment with this and see what the terminal output is.. I wish Asus would have figured out a way to do this on a mac..