On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 07:27:07 -0700 (PDT) LWB250 <lwb...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The problem is that the cable router's DHCP server used a 192.168.0.x
> range, while my AE uses a 10 dot range.
> 
> As a result, my Drobo is no longer visible, nor can I connect to it.
> And no, I don't recall what the static IP address was that I set for it
> in the "old" range, which is the rub.

Try setting the masks for the devices to 0.0.0.0. That should allow
connection from 10.x.x.x to 192.168.0.x.


> I tried connecting to it over ethernet directly with my MBP and
> multicasting using the 224.0.0.1 range, which has worked for me in the
> past. Unfortunately, using Netstat to do this yielded nothing.  I also
> pinged every address in the 192.168.0.x range up to 30, which would
> have been the highest I would have gone for a static IP in that range.

If your masks are blocking communication between 10.x.x.x and 192.168.0.x
you won't be able to ping.


> I could reconfigure everything back to the old range to be able to once
> again connect to the Drobo FS and recover the IP address, but I would
> rather not.

That sounds like the most reliable.


Craig

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