Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

[Dale]

Adam Carter wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 11:08 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com
> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dale wrote:
>     > Grant Taylor wrote:
>     >> On 12/30/19 1:04 PM, Dale wrote:
>     >>> Is there a way to find the IP for this thing?
>
>
> Its using 192.168.254.254. Since fireball is in 192.168.2.0/24
> <http://192.168.2.0/24>, its on a different subnet and therefore cant
> arp it.
>
> Try setting fireball to say 192.168.254.253/24
> <http://192.168.254.253/24> then try pinging 192.168.254.254


I found the offending entry.  When you posted that, I was confused for a
minute.  When I found the setting, it hit me.  My old modem is on
192.168.1.* and my router is on 192.168.2.*.  I commented those out so
it could grab whatever IP it wanted.  It WORKED!!  I could access the
modem.  I found out the name and such from the previous user.  I
couldn't see the password tho.  Anyway, it seems this is locked to
Frontier ISP.  I put in the right user name/password and it wouldn't
connect.  It tried but no joy. 

Before I bought this, it was claimed that this should work with AT&T but
unless I got something wrong, it doesn't.  Shame really, pretty nice
modem.  The screens give pretty nicely laid out info about things too. 

Unless someone can figure out how to make this Frontier based modem work
with AT&T, I guess this is a door stop. 

Thanks to all who helped. 

Dale

:-)  :-)