Dear all,
A short question: How do I change the ip address of the router (and thus the range of the entire lan network) to 12.165.10.xxx?
Now I can only select certain ranges, this 12.165.10.xxx is not one of the ranges I can select. Help! How can I do this?
Thank you very much!
It’s a restriction based on:
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has directed the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to reserve the following IPv4 address ranges for private networks:[1](p4)
| RFC1918 name | IP address range | Number of addresses | Largest CIDR block (subnet mask) | Host ID size | Mask bits | Classful description[Note 1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-bit block | 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 | 16777216 | 10.0.0.0/8 (255.0.0.0) | 24 bits | 8 bits | single class A network |
| 20-bit block | 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 | 1048576 | 172.16.0.0/12 (255.240.0.0) | 20 bits | 12 bits | 16 contiguous class B networks |
| 16-bit block | 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 | 65536 | 192.168.0.0/16 (255.255.0.0) | 16 bits | 16 bits | 256 contiguous class C networks |
But I’m assuming if you had a legitimate reason to do it you could do via:
More settings → Advanced ->Network → Interfaces → LAN EDIT ->IPV4 Address/DHCP Start/Limit
Actually you can just connect to SSH and run:
sed -i "s/'192.168.8.1'/'12.165.10.1'/g" /etc/config/network
reboot
When the router starts up the router will be on 12.165.10.1 and clients will get IP’s in the range you want 12.165.10.xxx
