Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:31:55 -0600 From: "Gary Aitken" <vagabond@blackfoot.net> To: wam@hiwaay.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <fdbe574eda8f00d04a860300ff1357c7.squirrel@webmail.blackfoot.net>
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On 10/24/14 11:49, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> ... I have been tussling w/ getting my newly acquired WatchGuard FireBox >>> Edge firewall appliance setup. It requires a computer on the LAN on its >>> own IP block (192.168.111.0/8), w/ netmask 255.255.255.0. I was/am >>> trying to use ifconfig to set this box up on that block (temporarily >>> !!!) to get that thing setup & configured. When I (successfully) reset >>> my IP address to 192.168.111.27, I am able to access the device w/ my >>> browser. However, it asked for a user name & passwd, which I don't have >>> & which the manual which came w/ it doesn't specify :-/ .... Any clues >>> what those might be .... Slightly OT, I realize, however I will probably >>> later try to change it over to *BSD, as per an earlier post, in case >>> that helps .... TIA for any & all clues .... >> >> A quick web search shows >> admin/admin > 1st thing I tried, nogo :-/ .... I also saw a pw of "wg" listed with no admin userid; might try combinations of admin / wg, <empty> / wg, <empty> <empty but I suspect you've already done the latter. Have you tried actually resetting the router to factory defaults? >>> Separately, when I reset the IP address of this box back to normal >>> (192.168.0.27), I could no longer access the web, or my DSL modem (on a >>> firewall)) w/o rebooting. When I did an 'ifconfig re0', I got almost the >>> same output as before my twiddling, except that the 'inet' & inet6' >>> lines were switched (inet before inet6 before twiddling, inet after >>> inet6 after twiddling) .... Could that be the cause of my inability to >>> access the modem & web ? TIA here also :-/ .... >> >> That's because you changed the third digit of the ip address, and it is no >> longer in the same subnet >> as the rest of your network, which you just changed over to >> 192.168.111.27. If I understand what you >> said above correctly. All of the boxes have to reside on the same subnet, >> either 192.168.111.* or >> 192.168.0.*, in your scenario above. >Everything is on subnet 192.168.0.nnn/8, *except* the new firewall, so I set *just* my computer (this box, FBSD 9.3p2) to the 192.168.111.nnn/8 subnet using ifconfig. I could indeed reach the firewall through my simple switch (Netgear from Best Buy). However, when I set this box *back* to my usual subnet, nothing past the router (which the firewall is intended to replace) worked w/o a reboot. So you could get to all the systems on the local net, but nothing past the router, and other systems could go past the router as usual? When you say w/o a reboot, what was rebooted -- the router or your system, or both? If your system, you might check the routing tables (netstat -rn) to make sure a default route is present and that it is to the router. I found that when reconfiguring a system here changing the ip addrs on the interface with the default route resulted in the default route disappearing. See "man route"
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