bfwebster
join:2002-01-24
Parker, CO
|  Updated on upgrade to ADSL
My attempts to set up the Briteport 8120 as a bridge failed each time, and while I was unrolling the third attempt (this past weekend), the Briteport went a bit wacko and wouldn't respond either to its default IP (192.168.1.1) or to the static IP address I had set. Important discovery: the "Reset" button on the 8120 doesn't actually reset anything except the administrator ID and password.
I did finally get through to the BritePort by setting one of my computers to the fixed IP of 192.168.1.100/255.255.255.0, with the default gateway set at 192.168.1.1, then brought up a browser again and went to 192.168.1.1. Turns out that the BritePort had somehow scrambled its firmware and wanted me to reload it. The Broadxent.com web site doesn't have a firmware download for the 8120, but the CD that came with the 8120 did. Loaded the firmware, reloaded the 8120 configuration that I had saved to disk, and I had DSL back again.
I spent the rest of the weekend and yesterday getting a replacement ADSL modem, the Zoom X5 5554A, up and running. It was a trial and error process, to say the least, but I somehow got the right settings in place, and it's working just fine.
I may yet try a bridge in the future, but for now, I have a two-tiered network, based on the fact that most of my systems have two network adapters. Four of my systems can either talk directly to the Zoom ADSL modem, using a static IP address, or they can talk on my larger internal network, where the printers, disk servers, etc., reside. A kludge, 'tis true, but it'll work for now. ..bruce.. |
