Reply To: Use of class B address on Asus router I am having difficulty changing my router’s ip address to a class b address i.e. 172.18.x.x, this being both more secure (less likely to guess) and legitimate as it falls…

[dr78]

Grisu, Thank you for your input. Your point is well made.

Just to put things in context: I am retired (73) and purely to keep my mind active, I was following a course on Linkedin which touched on network security. It pointed out that among the basic steps to securing private networks one could change the ip address of the private LAN. I think that the idea was simply to frustrate amateur hackers on the LAN side who would use the address printed on the base of most routers as a starting point for any attack. So I thought that I would give it a whirl.

My level of expertise is betrayed by the elementary error that I made. I apologise again.

DA

dr78

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