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[jettero]

I love this device.  It does all the things I want except one.  One really important thing.  I'm considering returning it, but I have a work around in place... so I'm sitting on my hands for the moment.

I wish to be able to use the device as an open access point.  I love that it lets me bridge my Ethernet to the wireless side, so I can use my real dhcp server instead of the built in one.  This also lets me do a bit more routing and traffic shaping than what's built into the device.

Love love love.  5/5 stars so far.

However, I discovered the admin interface cannot be configured to stay off the wireless side.  For some applications, you'd want it on the wireless but not the ethernet side, and for some you'd want it the other way around.  I can see it both ways, sure, but I really need to get that admin interface off the "public" side (wireless to me).

What I did as a work around was pick 4 random numbers between 0 and 255.  I used those 4 octets as the IP of the admin interface.  I find it rather unlikely an attacker could guess it easily, but it's technically possible.

How can I get the admin interface off the wireless side of the device?

About this I'm completely dismayed.

[jettero]

bump

[jerry6]

I don't know how you have your setup configured , but I can't get to the admin through any wireless . My setup is modem>router<wireless Bridge <xbox< media comp   
              wireless co^mp

[lizzi555]

My bridge is reachable from each wireless computer.
Did you enter a static IP in the network settings ?
Try to reach it via http://192.x.x.x (IP of DAP)

Works fine as long as the bridge is connected to my DIR router.
If not, you need a wired connection.

[jerry6]

that's it , my bridge is in another room not attached to a router.

 All I could say is have a really long password to the admin panel and wpa2 aes for wireless security and hope nobody on your network wants to hack into the admin panel . If using wpa2 it will be hard for someone to jump on your network

[lizzi555]

Hi Jerry, hope there is no missunderstanding now.
My DAP is wirelessly connected to my DIR-655, it is also located in another room.
But if all are in the same network (192.168.0.x) and the DAP has a static IP, you should be able to reach it via IP address.

That's why I always use static addresses for all network devices.

[jerry6]

Got a fever and headache today , so if i give my router address of 192.168.0.?? and have my router give out addy of 192.168.0..1-192.168.0.254 I will be able to reach the admin panel of dap at 192.168.0.50 from any wireless client on my network ?  Do I  have to change the subnet on my router or DAP ?
  Sorry hard to think today

[lizzi555]

Yes, all devices have to be in the same subnet.

You can either change the whole home net to 192.168.0.x or the address of the DAP to fit your home net.
It is easier to change just the one address of the DAP.

If your home net is in the 192.168.1 range, just change it to something like 192.169.1.50 and use your router's ip as gateway.
Don't use DHCP for the DAP.
As soon as the wireless connection router - bridge is established, the DAP is reachable from  each device in your network.

[jettero]

I don't know how you have your setup configured , but I can't get to the admin through any wireless .

I can.  I know you can too, you just haven't tried hard enough.  Manually set your wireless device to a static IP in the same subnet as your admin interface IP and you can get to it just fine, I promise.


(If you're trying to do this in a more complicated setting, you need to make sure that subnet is routable on the child subnet(s), but it will likely still work.)