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Topic: I disabled DHCP on LAN and I can't ping the router anymore

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Hello,

I disabled the DHCP by mistake and I can't access the router anymore even If I set the IP 192.168.1.2 and the Gateway 192.168.1.1 manually. Ping doesn't respond and I don't know what to do. I tried the failsafe method but it didn't work neither. The router is set as repeater so I'm seeing it connected to the main router but it doesn't help me to access. Could you help me please?

Thank you so much for your time.

Which ip does the router have?

rj-45 wrote:

Which ip does the router have?

It had 192.168.1.1 for LAN and 192.168.0.1 for WAN (the repeater). I switched the DHCP to static by mistake and it's like it hasn't any IP now.

If you turned off DHCP, then more than likely, your PC/Mac/Linux machine will _not_ have an IP address in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. The IP address should still be on the router, but you will need to manually set the IP address on your PC/Mac/Linux machine before you can communicate with the router.

IPv6 Plug: You _could_ connect to the router with IPv6, but you would need to know the IPv6 address of the router or use a discovery tool like v6disc

https://github.com/cvmiller/v6disc

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