TheTechieant
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Couple of days back I was testing the configuration pages of my Utstar 300R2 modem provided by BSNL in and out.
The objective was to make it connect to Internet on switching on the modem.
While the built-in PPPOE dialer didn't work, I noticed something weired in the modem's DHCP Clients page.
I had about 5 to 10 computers listed , each with a different MAC address, hostname , as DHCP clients for my modem.
Puzzled, I gave it a little thought, then decided all these people are somehow being served by the "DHCP server" in My modem. I immediately disabled the DHCP server on the modem, and gave it a static IP address. As that worked while booting WindowZ , I couldn't get it to work, when I logged in using Linux.
I enabled the DHCP server again , but, this time, configured it to be on a different IP mask, rather than the default 192.168.1.1.
Right after doing this , I tried logging into 192.168.1.1 ( by mistake, instead of the new IP address).
Now it turned interesting. I was connected to a modem, that was NOT mine. And, this modem was running for the last 10 hrs , as per the status page.
Any idea what was happening? 🙂
The objective was to make it connect to Internet on switching on the modem.
While the built-in PPPOE dialer didn't work, I noticed something weired in the modem's DHCP Clients page.
I had about 5 to 10 computers listed , each with a different MAC address, hostname , as DHCP clients for my modem.
Puzzled, I gave it a little thought, then decided all these people are somehow being served by the "DHCP server" in My modem. I immediately disabled the DHCP server on the modem, and gave it a static IP address. As that worked while booting WindowZ , I couldn't get it to work, when I logged in using Linux.
I enabled the DHCP server again , but, this time, configured it to be on a different IP mask, rather than the default 192.168.1.1.
Right after doing this , I tried logging into 192.168.1.1 ( by mistake, instead of the new IP address).
Now it turned interesting. I was connected to a modem, that was NOT mine. And, this modem was running for the last 10 hrs , as per the status page.
Any idea what was happening? 🙂