On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 06:12 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > It seems too often I struggle with the problem of dealing with a > device > that, when "reset" or new, is on a different subnet and my computer > address needs to change temporarily for the device to be > accessedwith > the Firefox browser long enough to change the device address too > something in my 192.168.1.xxx range. > > What is the simplest way to do that with Fedora 27 or > 28,NetworkManager? > > My immediate problem is that I have an Buffalo router /have been > using > as an ethernet bridge for a long time and I forgot the address I > assigned to it and I can't access it. It came with dd-wrt. I t > looks > to me like I need to reset it to gain access with the browser. > > /Bob > You can temporarily give your lan interface another class C and configure that device to give it a ip in your range. Say your device reset to 192.168.0.1 and your ethernet interface is eth0 you can ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 Config device plugged into your switch to your class C then ifconfig eth0:0 down Gary. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/K6IQE7VAKLHFUQHPNWRFCR4FZT6E4CMT/
