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[Gary Aitken]

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"