Access Point/Router IP needed

My first guess would be 192.168.X.1, where X is a small integer (1, 2, etc). Try that and see what happens. If no joy, try pinging

Another possibility on an isolated network is to use a packet sniffer (tcpdump, ethereal, etc) to watch all traffic from ethernet addresses other than your own while you power up the router.

On unix (maybe windows too?), you could try "arp -a". If there are any IP addresses that you don't recognize, they're good candidates for belonging to your mystery box.

Alternatively, most vendors have some kind of "reset to factory default" mechanism that gets the box back into a known state without knowing anything about how it's currently configured.

This is a good, free program for scanning your network:

I guess the seller removed the serial number tag so you can't identify the access-point, router, or whatever. Perhaps you could disclose the color and shape so it might be identified?

NMap works nicely for scanning for IP's.

Default IP Addresses from one of my older postings: 192.168.0.1 (Dlink) 192.168.0.5 (Ugate 3200) 192.168.0.50 (Dlink DWL900) 192.168.0.254 (SMC2526W AP, Eumitcom) 192.168.1.1 (Netgear etc) 192.168.1.2 (Some Proxim) 192.168.1.20 (SMC 2755) 192.168.1.201 (USR 5430) 192.168.1.240 (Ovislink-AP mode, Linksys WRE54G) 192.168.1.241 (Ovislink-Bridge mode) 192.168.1.245 (Linksys WAP54G) 192.168.1.246 (Linksys WAP55AG) 192.168.1.251 (Linksys WAP11 v2.8) 192.168.1.254 (Linksys WRT54G v1.1) 192.168.2.1 (Belkin, SMC) 192.168.2.254 (Belkin) 192.168.123.254 (USR 8054, Asante) 192.168.254.254 (Cayman, Siemens)

You mean other than running CMD, then typing IPconfig?

"Georged" wrote in news:d1c0m7$ptt$ snipped-for-privacy@avnika.corp.mot.com:

Are you using the device as a router. If you are... it's usually the Gateway IP.

What is the particular brand and model of this router/AP? A google should find the default IP.

Some IPs that may be the default:

Cheers,

-Eric

Yes this is correct. You can find out simply by doing a quick search of the brand in google.

if its working, goto a client PC and check out the gateway address. That is your routers IP.....

Robert....

Y'er no fun. If someone was using it as an access point, and turned off the DHCP server, you'll get nothing. Assuming it has a reset button, I would stomp on it to reset everything to defaults and start over.

(Mini-rant: Why is so many people reluctant to disclose the maker and model number? Fear of numbers?)