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Grisu, Thank you for your clarification. Glad that I only tinkered at home.
Hope that I haven’t caused any offence with my rather stupid question. I’ll spend longer trying to unravel these mysteries before pressing fingers on the keyboard next time. (or give up)
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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
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UK Sentinel, Thank you very much for your efforts.
I am very embarassed (can’t find a red faced emoji), I discovered my error last night and I’m almost too ashamed to confess it. As above,I changed the address, but couldn’t log in. Like an idiot, I was trying to do so with my laptop still using 192.168.1.1 as the gateway. Changed it to the 172. address and Eureka.
I can only apologise and thank you again for your efforts on my behalf
Best regards
DA
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