How do I access config utilities by their IP addresses in a DHCP system?
I have a hardwired home ethernet Windows peer-to-peer network
that used fixed IP addresses, and everything worked fine,
including a Linksys EFG80 file server and two WAP11 wireless
access points (they’re actually doing translation, not
wireless). These three items are managed through web-based
config utilities which I accessed by typing their IP addresses
into Internet Explorer.
Then I got broadband - Direcway satellite - and their DW6000
“modem” requires the rest of your network to use DHCP, with it
as the host. Damn thing took me about 12 hours to figure out.
So I changed all my network components to be DHCP clients, and
now it all appears to work, except…
Now the config utilities don’t work. I type their old IP
addresses into IE and it says page not available. And,
indeed, these addresses shouldn’t be valid anymore. But how
do I find the correct addresses, which are periodically
changing without notice?
The devices themselves work, and I can rerun the installation
program to configure them, but it’s awfully klunky to do this
whenever I want to check their status.