Hi,
I was setting up a CSS server and set up static a IP on my router. This made the internet go down and my parents freaked out and when I told them that it was me, they freaked out further. Then our internet came back on. But then we noticed that our other router wasn't working. My parents blamed me.
Is it possible that putting a static IP on one router could break the other router?
Help me facepunch!
[QUOTE=cis.joshb;33587174]Hi,
I was setting up a CSS server and set up static a IP on my router. This made the internet go down and my parents freaked out and when I told them that it was me, they freaked out further. Then our internet came back on. But then we noticed that our other router wasn't working. My parents blamed me.
Is it possible that putting a static IP on one router could break the other router?
Help me facepunch![/QUOTE]
Probably should ask your parents before you do shit to something they fucking pay for.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;33587810]Probably should ask your parents before you do shit to something they fucking pay for.[/QUOTE]
Setting up a static IP is one of the most harmless things you can do to a piece of computer equipment. The swearing was completely unnecessary and I am going to have to kindly ask you to get out.
To the OP: Does the secondary router get access to the internet from the first one? You could have taken the local IP of that router, causing it to not be able to connect. It is most likely caused by the network reset though.
if you're port forwarding it's the PC you're going to be hosting from that you set up a static IP for, not for the router
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;33587810]Probably should ask your parents before you do shit to something they fucking pay for.[/QUOTE]
Dad?
What exactly is "not working"?
I'm going to assume your parents are the "literate enough to click shit on the desktop" type of people, and get angry at things they don't understand besides that it doesn't work?
[QUOTE=cis.joshb;33588941]Dad?[/QUOTE]
Go to your room.
Snip wrong thread android browser sucks.
[QUOTE=raccoon2112;33588796]Does the secondary router get access to the internet from the first one? You could have taken the local IP of that router, causing it to not be able to connect. It is most likely caused by the network reset though.[/QUOTE]
Bingo.
The primary router came back after the reset, but the other one didn't, because I changed the internal IP to blahblah.102 instead of blahblah.1, and the other router was set to connect to blahblah.1. I changed the IP back, and back to dynamic, and it worked.
No moar CSS server though :(.
I bet if you messed around with it enough (while the folks are away) you could get it to work :)
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;33587810]Probably should ask your parents before you do shit to something they fucking pay for.[/QUOTE]Rofl you swear so vehemently, rather than taking a hermeneutical look at the actual situation.
OP, you need to simply set a static IP to the computer, not the router. After that, THEN do the port forwarding.
[QUOTE=raccoon2112;33592817]I bet if you messed around with it enough (while the folks are away) you could get it to work :)[/QUOTE]
I'm scared to, because my dad's the "GODDAMNIT, CHILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" type.
When setting up port forwarding, see if your router will accept a computer name instead of an IP.
My old one did.
[QUOTE=cis.joshb;33603970]I'm scared to, because my dad's the "GODDAMNIT, CHILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" type.[/QUOTE]
Just read him a bunch of technobabble and act like you know what you're doing 100%
That works for me in most cases, especially when my parents don't have a clue
[QUOTE=JDiTo;33614430]Just read him a bunch of technobabble and act like you know what you're doing 100%
That works for me in most cases, especially when my parents don't have a clue[/QUOTE]Or actually take some time to understand what you want to be doing, it's not that hard.
OP: open a command prompt and type ipconfig /all [enter]. Look for the adapter that is connected to the default gateway that is your router and note the IP adress and the MAC address.
Go to your router (default gateway, sounds like you've been there before) and look for an option called "static DHCP" or "MAC binding" or another combination of those 4 words. What you want to do is make a static association between the MAC address and IP address you noted before. This means that your router will reserve that IP for your network card (the part of your computer where internet signal enters).
With the static part done you can now forward the required ports to the IP address you just made static. From your story it sounds like you did this part right the first time but you messed up the static IP part.
You probably set the static IP of the machine to the same as the default gateway
This happens all the time at my house.
Usually you can stop them by saying there was a problem and you can just explain ANY computer related bullshit
that no one understands and they will most likely leave you alone.
[QUOTE=Dog;33615462]This happens all the time at my house.
Usually you can stop them by saying there was a problem and you can just explain ANY computer related bullshit
that no one understands and they will most likely leave you alone.[/QUOTE]
If I touched the router again (digitally or physically) I would have no access to a computer for a month.
just set the static IP of the computer you want to the one it is currently assigned to, thats what I do, just wait untill their out of the house or something, and if it breaks it, change it back
[QUOTE=viperfan7;33622087]just set the static IP of the computer you want to the one it is currently assigned to, thats what I do, just wait untill their out of the house or something, and if it breaks it, change it back[/QUOTE]
That's what I did, and it does break it, and as previously posted I'm not risking being caught.
If you want to run a server that isn't only on your LAN you might want to use a static external ip. Having a static internal ip wont change the situation, unless ofcourse everyone in your house runs with external addresses.
[QUOTE=carrot;33627255]If you want to run a server that isn't only on your LAN you might want to use a static external ip. Having a static internal ip wont change the situation, unless ofcourse everyone in your house runs with external addresses.[/QUOTE]
pretty sure you have no idea what you're talking about
you'd want a static internal IP for a box hosting anything so that you don't need to go through and change the address ports are forwarded to on the off chance that the computer gets disconnected from the network for some period of time and is assigned a different IP when it is reconnected
[QUOTE=Soda;33627628]pretty sure you have no idea what you're talking about
you'd want a static internal IP for a box hosting anything so that you don't need to go through and change the address ports are forwarded to on the off chance that the computer gets disconnected from the network for some period of time and is assigned a different IP when it is reconnected[/QUOTE]
That's very true, sorry.
Why not just get a remotely hosted server from any good GSP? Hamachi is also an alternative to using a static external IP, but requires other people to install the Hamachi software to join your server.
[QUOTE=BBgamer720;33631493]Why not just get a remotely hosted server from any good GSP? Hamachi is also an alternative to using a static external IP, but requires other people to install the Hamachi software to join your server.[/QUOTE]
Buying a server from a GSP should be the last option for anyone, it's never fun to be stuck with a server that doesn't work out that you still need to pay for but can't use for something else, a home server is the best idea 90 % of the time.
OP could try using no-ip.com and the updater. It creates a subdomain (for example, cisjoshb.no-ip.com), and you just run an 'updater' on your computer and it automatically syncs the IP for the subdomain with your current external IP, so if your IP changes, the subdomain's address changes automatically.
[url]http://www.no-ip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html[/url]
If you can afford $20/mo, get a virtual server. I'm using Linode and they've treated me well.
This allows you to set up a FastDL if you need it as well as a website if your server grows enough.
[QUOTE=BBgamer720;33631737]OP could try using no-ip.com and the updater. It creates a subdomain (for example, cisjoshb.no-ip.com), and you just run an 'updater' on your computer and it automatically syncs the IP for the subdomain with your current external IP, so if your IP changes, the subdomain's address changes automatically.
[url]http://www.no-ip.com/services/managed_dns/free_dynamic_dns.html[/url][/QUOTE]How is this going to forward his ports on his NAT router at home?
at least you aren't dealing my parents
my second router wasn't working and my dad was talking about buying some DHCP shit (what the actual fuck)
i found the problem within 30 seconds. it wasn't plugged in
or the fact our main router has a config utility built for Windows 2000 or Java SE 6. it doesn't work anymore to say the least, and we just hope that the settings it has will continue working
[QUOTE=Protocol7;33642087]at least you aren't dealing my parents
my second router wasn't working and my dad was talking about buying some DHCP shit (what the actual fuck)
i found the problem within 30 seconds. it wasn't plugged in
or the fact our main router has a config utility built for Windows 2000 or Java SE 6. it doesn't work anymore to say the least, and we just hope that the settings it has will continue working[/QUOTE]
It would be better if my dad just let me do whatever.
Your parents aren't so bad as long as you know how to do shit.
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