Logging into Netgear router

[fbrdphreak]

I have a Netgear WGU642 Dual-Band Super A/B/G router (which will be replaced by a regular G Netgear router shortly). In order to Remote Desktop into it around my school's campus, I needed to disable the DHCP server and basically turn it into a 4-port switch wireless access point. Well, being that it is no longer its own DHCP server, the 192.0.0.* IP is no longer valid! It has been assigned some IP by my school's network and I don't know what it is, thus I cannot log into it via IE. Anyone have any ideas how to retrieve this IP? I know I can do a hard reset, change what I need to and voila, but I want to know a permanent solution. Thanks in advance

 

[whalen]

Umm...why dont you reset it to factory defaults, set the WAN interface to obtain and IP from the DHCP server, then do NAT for the internal network. Then from your PC, you should set it to obtain an IP (DHCP), and connect to the internal IP of the router. After that is set up, you need to forward port 3389 to the IP of the internal machine. Then you can RDP into your computer using the external IP that your router picks up from the DHCP server.

Ryan

 

[fbrdphreak]

So what you're saying is this:
(1) Reset and allow it to use DHCP to assign IPs for devices connected to the router.
(2) Obtain the IP that my network assigns to the router itself.
(3) Set the ROUTER to forward port 3389 to the IP of my desktop
(4) Then RDP to the ROUTER's IP (the one assigned by my school's network).
Am I understanding you correctly? Thanks

Not on top of networking lately, sorry...

 

[whalen]

Yep, basically when you reset your router to factory defaults, it should set everything up how you will need it, with the exception of the RDP port forward.

1. Reset router to factory default settings as described in your user manual (Probably just hold the reset button in for a few seconds).

1. Configure your PC to "Obtain and IP Address".

1. Log into the web interface of your router from the internal PC. You should be able to find the IP address of it in your manual, but it will probably be 192.168.0.1, or something like that.

1. Find the port forwarding section of the configuration menu, and set the router to forward port 3389 to your internal computer. The IP of your computer should not change even though you use DHCP, unless you have other computers on your network. If you want, you can set your PC to have an IP address outside of the range that the router has allocated to use for DHCP addresses.

1. When you are out on campus or anywhere else, just point the RDP client to the IP that the WAN (outside) interface on your router has obtained from its DHCP server. You can find this address when you are logged into the router.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Thanks a lot, I will set that tonight and give it a shot tomorrow.