So, I had a whoopsie with the network...

Le_Petit_Lapin · 18 Feb 2009 at 13:18

Hi guys,

So I went and locked myself out of the router (don't ask

), and had to reset the damn thing, then I needed to re-flash it with a different version of DD-WRT anyway (for OpenVPN, if i can ever get build-dh working).

But of course muggins here forgot to save the settings on the router before the reset and re-flash, so it's all gone a bit pear-shaped here.

To add insult to injury, I've mis-placed the lovely document that had all my hostnames and IP's in it, as far as I remember I have the PC's set up to be static IP's, by changing the network properties.

I may as well re-set everything to hold IP's for each machines MAC address on the router itself anyway, yes? As it is at the minute, under DCHP clients it lists nothing, which is somewhat unhelpful.

So is there a wee command line thing or something I can run in Win XP that will spit out the IP addresses of the machines that this PC can "see" on the network, so I can get all the port forwards back up and running again?

SoundsGood · 18 Feb 2009 at 13:34

test

test678

Le_Petit_Lapin · 18 Feb 2009 at 13:43

SoundsGood said:
You could use Angry IP Scanner or similar if you have ping enabled

Cheers!

Le_Petit_Lapin · 18 Feb 2009 at 14:58

Right, next question, has anyone used OpenVPN, and wants to tell me why the "build-dh" command wont work for me?

Sp00n · 18 Feb 2009 at 17:42

What's the error?

Le_Petit_Lapin · 18 Feb 2009 at 19:34

Nothing, it just sits there and doesn't do anything after I tell it do do that.

From my post on the Sourceforge forums:

I've tried it on 3 PC's now, and all it does is move the cursor to the next line in the CMD prompt, and then do a great amount of nothing.

It should be outputting something like this (below) there, right?

Generating DH parameters, 1024 bit long safe prime, generator 2
This is going to take a long time
.................+...........................................
...................+.............+.................+.........
......................................

Been trying to get it to work on 4 PC's since last night, 1 vista machine, 2 XP machines and one Server 2003 machine. None of them are having any of it, the CMD prompt just sits there and does nothing.

Anyone have any suggestions? I know that the build-dh is supposed to take a short while, but the prompts are outputting anything atfer me leaving them there for a full 12 hours.

Everything else is fine, it generates certificates quite happily, but wont make any headway on the DH parameters. Tried the older versions too and none of them work on any of the machines.

Its really got me scratching my head.

Just to confirm here I navigate using the CMD prompt to the easy-rsa folder like:

c:\openvpn\easy-rsa\

and type build.dh and hit enter? All that does is make the CMD prompt move the cursor to the next line, and not a whole lot else. doesnt bring up the prompt:

c:\openvpn\easy-rsa>

either for that matter, like it would do if you just hit enter at a CMD prompt with nothing typed there, so I knows its supposed to be doing something, it just doesn't do it. :confused:

Piccy in case that makes no sense: