Skully Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 I am supposed to have a dynamic IP address, yet whenever I reset my router it isn't changing, how can I get it to change manually? Using a netgear router if that's any help. Thanks beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obfuscator Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Try this: http://whatismyipaddress.com/change-ip "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skully Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 Do I actually have to leave everything off overnight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep455_is_the_best Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Routers usually have a web-interface, try connecting to that and look for an option to release/renew DHCP.That works for me, anyway. [Whip drops: 13] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Routers usually have a web-interface, try connecting to that and look for an option to release/renew DHCP.That works for me, anyway.That would only change the LAN IP not WAN. RIP TET "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Routers usually have a web-interface, try connecting to that and look for an option to release/renew DHCP.That works for me, anyway.That would only change the LAN IP not WAN. Depends on what part of the router you are doing it on, most of the time I see it, it is on the WAN interface. Whether or not rebooting the router, or leaving it off overnight will help depending on how the ISPs equipment is set up. I work as a network engineer at a local ISP here, and I can tell you our routers hand out 24 hour leases. So if your lease doesn't renew overnight, then leaving it off overnight will not work for our equipment. Your router should have an option for "MAC address cloning" or something like that. Put in a different MAC address and restart the router and you should pull a new IP address, regardless of lease times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skully Posted August 25, 2011 Author Share Posted August 25, 2011 Routers usually have a web-interface, try connecting to that and look for an option to release/renew DHCP.That works for me, anyway.That would only change the LAN IP not WAN. Depends on what part of the router you are doing it on, most of the time I see it, it is on the WAN interface. Whether or not rebooting the router, or leaving it off overnight will help depending on how the ISPs equipment is set up. I work as a network engineer at a local ISP here, and I can tell you our routers hand out 24 hour leases. So if your lease doesn't renew overnight, then leaving it off overnight will not work for our equipment. Your router should have an option for "MAC address cloning" or something like that. Put in a different MAC address and restart the router and you should pull a new IP address, regardless of lease times.Ehm, just find that and put any random number? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skully Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 Routers usually have a web-interface, try connecting to that and look for an option to release/renew DHCP.That works for me, anyway.Can't find whatever that is on my netgear router.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Ehm, just find that and put any random number? 12 digit hexadecimal (0-f) EDIT: Just change any one of the numbers by one, it will be good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skully Posted August 26, 2011 Author Share Posted August 26, 2011 Ehm, just find that and put any random number? 12 digit hexadecimal (0-f) EDIT: Just change any one of the numbers by one, it will be good enough.My computer isn't the one directly connected to my router, does that matter at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Nope, you just have to go to the router config page, which'll be something like 192.168.x.x, where both x's are (normally) a combination of 0, 1 and 2, eg 192.168.1.1 . It could be entirely different though, mine is 192.168.1.254. Just search your router model and then 'config page address' or something similar. Then look in an A-Z of functions, which your router should probably have, then go to DCHP management. RIP TET "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 It's not the router that you have to unplug and plug back in. It's the Modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Diddy Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 It's not the router that you have to unplug and plug back in. It's the Modem. ^^This. Might really help us if you can give us a model type/number for the router. Easy google searches for user guides would do wonders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 It's not the router that you have to unplug and plug back in. It's the Modem. ^^This. Might really help us if you can give us a model type/number for the router. Easy google searches for user guides would do wonders. Depends. If the modem has the ability to NAT, then yes. If not, then no. We set up a fair amount of our DSL customers with modems in bridged mode, and they don't pull IP addresses, the devices behind it do. All of our wireless broadband and fiber customers own equipment pulls the public IP addresses, though the equivalent of the modems pull separate address (in a local dhcp subnet) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 It's not the router that you have to unplug and plug back in. It's the Modem. ^^This. Might really help us if you can give us a model type/number for the router. Easy google searches for user guides would do wonders. Depends. If the modem has the ability to NAT, then yes. If not, then no. We set up a fair amount of our DSL customers with modems in bridged mode, and they don't pull IP addresses, the devices behind it do. All of our wireless broadband and fiber customers own equipment pulls the public IP addresses, though the equivalent of the modems pull separate address (in a local dhcp subnet) I see, the 2 ISPs in my region are both using NAT capable modems and it is the modem that pulls the ip address for both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jernlov Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 most likely a modem/router since these are ubiquitous here. I've not seen a seperate modem and router in a very, very long time Steam | Soup | Last.fm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skully Posted August 27, 2011 Author Share Posted August 27, 2011 It's not the router that you have to unplug and plug back in. It's the Modem. ^^This. Might really help us if you can give us a model type/number for the router. Easy google searches for user guides would do wonders.As far as I know we haven't had a modem in our house since we had a dialup connection, ehm, i'm not sure of the model number, all I can say is it's a netgear, i'd assumed all netgears would have the same interface? Edit: Model is DG834PM, just noticed it pops up when you log in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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