Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 22:43:15
Message-Id: b3711a51-5923-3d86-d236-322950287367@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address by Jack
1 Jack wrote:
2 > On 2019.12.30 15:04, Dale wrote:
3 >> Howdy,
4 >>
5 >> I ran up on a used DSL modem that supports IPv6.  It was cheap so
6 >> figured why not.  Ironically, it is also a router.  It's a Netgear
7 >> Frontier B90-755044-15 sometimes referred to as the 7550.   Anyway, I
8 >> tried all the usual IPs to access the thing, no luck.  I tried resetting
9 >> it, holding the reset button for 7 seconds.  That didn't help either. 
10 >> I've googled and tried all the IPs I can find that way too.  None of
11 >> this is working.  The lights and all come up like it should.  It seems
12 >> to be working fine, just can't access it to set it up. 
13 >>
14 >> Is there a way to find the IP for this thing?  I'm out of ideas here. 
15 >> Anyone own one of these and can share their defaults?  Why don't they
16 >> put the default IP on the bottom anyway??? 
17 >>
18 >> Thanks.
19 >>
20 >> Dale
21 > I think I probably had one of those years ago, before switching to
22 > cable.  If your PC uses DHCP, then you should be able to do "ip a" and
23 > find the subnet (perhaps 192.168.1)  You might then try 254 as the
24 > last octet.  Using traceroute might also show you the address.  If you
25 > want/need to dig out the big guns, wireshark should also provide some
26 > useful info.
27 >
28 > Jack
29 >
30
31 I've never noticed the ip command before, not that I remember anyway.  I
32 did try ipconfig before tho.  While I tried to use ip, I may not be
33 using it correctly.  Actually, most likely I'm not.  The help page was
34 little help either. 
35
36 This is the IPs I've tried so far:
37
38 http://192.168.0.1/
39 http://192.168.0.5
40 http://192.168.0.254/
41 http://192.168.0.255/
42 http://192.168.1.1/
43 http://192.168.1.5
44 http://192.168.1.254
45 http://192.168.1.255
46 http://192.168.2.1
47 http://192.168.2.5
48 http://192.168.2.254
49 http://192.168.2.255
50 http://192.168.254.254/
51
52 I think I tried 128 on the end at one point as well.
53
54 Even tho I have dhcp set up and the ethernet light shows it is
55 connected, I still restart eth1 just to be sure.  Then I run ifconfig
56 and take the info from there to start trying addresses.  I figure the
57 3rd part might narrow it down a bit.   Then I try some others even if
58 they don't make a lot of sense to try.  This is what ipconfig usually
59 shows for eth1:
60
61
62
63 root@fireball / # ifconfig
64 eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
65         inet 192.168.2.5  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
66         inet6 fe80::201:53ff:fe80:dc35  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
67         ether 00:01:53:80:dc:35  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
68         RX packets 43311747  bytes 60136286625 (56.0 GiB)
69         RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
70         TX packets 33539185  bytes 2574220465 (2.3 GiB)
71         TX errors 2  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
72
73
74
75 To be honest, it doesn't seem to change from when I'm hooked to the
76 older hardware. I dunno.
77
78 Open to ideas if anyone has some. 
79
80 Dale
81
82 :-)  :-) 

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>