Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
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Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
23-05-2010 5:48 PM
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There appears to be no way to allocate a device a static ip address (192.168.1.xxx).
Configuration is dreadful.
I really don't have need for that silly Windows button on the front of the router.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
23-05-2010 6:24 PM
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u can even see hidden users!
Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
23-05-2010 8:30 PM
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I don't have one powered up in front of me, so this may not be exact.
Assuming you have DHCP active...
If you can find from the home screen, the page which has both devices and interface on.
Then click on devices. You should see all the IP addresses that the DHCP server has given out (recently).
Click on one of the devices, and drill down until you get to config or settings or details (I forget). There should be a checkbox there to tell the 585v7 that the IP address for that MAC address is static / the lease is infinite.
Sorry I can't be more accurate.
-- gyre --
Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
23-05-2010 9:06 PM
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I used to "get by" with the old router because it allowed you to edit the allocated ip-address.
Is there a guide on using the command-line? I have a copy, but it's a difficult read.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
23-05-2010 11:35 PM
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telnet to the router
Then type:
:dhcp server lease add clientid=macaddress pool=LAN_private addr=ipaddress expirytime=0 macaddr=macaddress
Where macaddress is teh MAC address of the device you want to give an IP address to.
and ipaddress is the IP address you want to give it.
-- gyre --
Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
24-05-2010 12:09 AM
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Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
24-05-2010 2:20 AM
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1. just go to start->run and type
telnet 192.168.1.254
assuming you are using the thomson router.
2. login user
3. type
? or help for a list of all command groups
for easy cool menu:
menu
and move around with arrow keys.
i suggest you look around or read the manual u have because there are a lot of options hidden to the gui user.
you can even delete plusnets technical team user
Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
24-05-2010 3:40 AM
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the very idea of having to use the deprecated telnet had me in a fever of apprehension, so i didn't bother. after a short while of working more or less ok, i took the thompson out of the loop and returned my netgear.
Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
24-05-2010 10:29 AM
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Quote from: A Thanks gyre - but one of my devices has a hard-coded ip-address.
If you device has the IP hard coded why do you want to configure the router? Your device will not be using DHCP (proabaly) so why mess around with the router DHCP settings? So long as the hard coded IP address of your device is outside the router DCHP pool you should not need to config the router. If the TG585 is the same as the ST716 then the DHCP pool is allocated from 192.168.1.64 to 192.168.1.253 so you can use any address below 192.168.1.64 as static addresses.
Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
24-05-2010 11:02 AM
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Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
24-05-2010 11:59 AM
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This Thompson thing seems to have 64 - 254 in the DHCP range and I wanted to reserve 192.168.1.99 - so your fix has worked perfectly.
I suppose I'll have to repeat it every time I'm forced to reboot the router.
I'd quite like to repeat this for my few other PC's - but I don't think the router will stay up for long...
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Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
24-05-2010 1:22 PM
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:config save
or:
:saveall
I can't remember which works
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Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
24-05-2010 1:55 PM
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But it is there and it actually had the new reserved address in it.
I didn't try the command line options.
You have a fantastic memory.
So all is well...
Thanks for all your help.
Jeremy
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Allocation of static ip addresses using a Thompson router
08-10-2016 6:57 PM
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gyre,
After all these years, I still have the same Thomson router from when I was with O2 and now with Sky.
The lease add command works right.
I have just an exception:
The clientid has this format:
[01] macaddress 48bit
but for some hosts, the router's dhcp server seems to have added automatically entries like this:
[ff] 4f:c3:8c:95:00:01:00:01:1c:5c:21:20:00:1e:4f:c3:8c:95
and others like
[68] 69:63:68:6c:61:70:74:6f:70
I don't know why this happens.
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