Wireless Router IP Change and Security

[Euclid]

My new wireless router has a default IP that it uses (192.168.0.1).
Are there any compelling security reasons to change this to something else?
If so, will any address do?

Thanks.

 

[JackMDS]

Nah, if the Wireless Clients is set to Auto Obtain IP, it would pick any 802.11b that can assign any valid IP.

However if you have (example) 3 computers and you restrict the DHCP to three IPs. When the three computers are on there is no more available IP for an intruder.

More here: Wireless Security.

:sun:

 

[Euclid]

Thanks for the quick response.

I was thinking more of the base IP of the device itself.

Meaning that the device has an ip of 192.168.0.1 by default.
The DHCP assigns ip's from 192.168.0.100 - 192.168.0.199

I have the option of changing the device ip to say 210.210.0.1
and thus causing the DHCP to assign ip's from 210.210.0.100 - 210.210.0.199

In other words, does it give the potential hacker any advantage in knowing
that many routers come with a default ip of 192.168.0.1?
(given of course that all passwords are changed, mac filtering on,DHCP ranges shortened as you suggested, WAN pings disabled, etc etc)

 

[n0cmonkey]

You should keep it an RFC1918 compliant address (192.168.0.0/24, 172.16.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8). Changing the default address of the WAP is basically just a security through obscurity option. It doesn't provide much, or any for someone that knows what they are doing, but it's not necessarily a bad option.

It's a small piece of information that would be easy to get.

 

[Euclid]

Excellent. Thanks.