Rather embarassing issue

Ok... I know computer fairly well for self educated in the subject. But I'm a windows guy.

I'm trying to set up a password to my wireless router, but I don't know where to find my IP address in a mac based OS.

Can anyone tell me where I can find it?

I tried going through preferences, network, TC/IP settings. But its not giving me any information.

I am using a linksys based wireless router system, not the tradition airport or whatever the name of the hub mac uses... er nothing to say against macs.

 

Maybe in a terminal? with "ifconfig" like in linux. I don't have mine yet

(not ipconfig like windows)

 

He needs the gateway (his router) address to configure it.

 

If he then clicks on ADVANCED and then on the TCP/IP tab, he will see his Router's IP address.

 

I was referring to the public IP he would have found on a IP lookup page. Like I said I don't know OSX nor airport.

Will very soon though

 

It should be 192.168.1.1

 

Whoa... ok thanks everyone for responding so quickly I got it. Was just trying to password my router. Was starting to put me on edge... like going to bed without locking your doors.

Oh and Letsrok how did you get my gateway address? Not angry... just curious.

 

Linksys based wireless systems all have 192.168.1.1 set to the router itself. On Netgear based wireless systems, it's 192.168.0.1.

 

Will this cause... easy hacking abilities and if so can I change it to something else.

 

@75261 - This will not cause easy hacking abilities lol. As long as you have a password set on your network, the person hacking has to hack your network password, then get into your router config and do I don't know what with it. Hackers will get into your internet connection whether you want them to or not.

One thing though. No one wants to bother with you. You probably have dozens of neighbors that people can leech internet from because they don't WEP their network lol.

My IP adress is 69.**.***.18*. That is the IP address to my house. The gateway is just your routers address that it uses to assign your home network. For example

Gateway = 192.168.0.1
Computer I'm On = 192.168.0.3
Xbox 360 = 192.168.0.80 *Static so I can bypass firewall*
Laptop = 192.168.0.2 *usually*

 

lol ok... yea I get a little paranoid sometimes. I've been hacked before had to pull out the chord. But hasn't happen since.

Thanks though

 

Please don't use WEP. It's easy to break in 1 minute on a Linux machine. Use WPA or WPA2.
Only permit access to your router config through LAN not wireless so it will be IMPOSSIBLE for road warriors to change your router config! You also could configure the (LAN) access to use https but in this case not that interesting (to encrypt your router-config- traffic).
To change your routers IP address is good but an experienced hacker uses ARP to figure out your IP range. But it is always nice to not have a standard out of the box config, besides it will give you a little more insight in networking which is always nice.
Use a sentence (of your favorite book) for a pass phrase and change some letters for numbers or so. You only have to use it for adding more nodes - like iPod or more computers. But use a sentence not a word 23 digits or so. The more letters the longer it takes to break it which will not be possible anyway with WPA @ the moment.
And again do yourself a favor : don't use WEP!
Also I recommend not to use remote access (access for config through the internet) and use a strong password for your router (config) access (which shouldn't be accessible through wireless)

 

Yeah, I have heard WEP is terribly easy to hack through as well. Go to the networking section of the forum for more info...

 

Don't bother changing your private ip range. It isn't worth bothering with. Make sure remote configuration is OFF in your router and you change your password so it isn't linksys/linksys or admin/password or some other easily hackable login.

Once you log in to your router, make sure you set up (at least) WEP (and also) WPA so people can't mooch your wireless or sit there trying to log in to your network shared drives. It would be a good idea to do router config using a wired ethernet connection so every time you change something, you don't have to change your end to log back in and keep working.

 

What do you mean by that? If you do it wired you won't have to adjust settings like you would if you were doing it wireless?

 

I think what r0k means is that because when you change most setting on a router, it will reset the wireless. As a result, if you are connected via wifi to the router, you will be thrown off. If you reconnect, you will have to re-log back into the router as the administrator. If you were connected via cable, you will not have to do this.