Resetting Motorola VT1005V IP / How to??

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 30, 2004 Posts: 1

I changed my mta's ip address to be assigned thinking it would clear up some issues. Now I am having trouble with just getting a dial tone. It flashes 4 green constantly. I do not remember the ip address I assigned it, and it does not respond to connecting through a browser when I try using the gateway address my computer sees. I have the mta connected directly to my cable modem and my pc to the mta. Is there a way to reset it to default settings where it can once again obtain the ip information automatically? Again I cannot connect to it via a web browser and all I get is the 4 flashing green "trying to authenticate with Vonage" lights.

Thanks in advance.
Marcus

Posts: 67 · Full Forum Member Joined: Mar 22, 2004 Posts: 67

As far as I know there is no way to change the PC port's address. However, you might have turned off DHCP.

So the trick is to make sure you have connected to the PC port (not the WAN port) and set an arbitrary IP address on your PC that is on the same net. So the MTA should be at 192.168.102.1 so set your PC to 192.168.102.95 (for example) and a subnet of (255.255.255.0).

Then you should be able to connect to it. If not, then something else is wrong.

Al Williams

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 30, 2004 Posts: 1

I can confirm this. Smile

The 192.168.102.1 address is always active on the PC/LAN interface. Note that the web interface is not available from the WAN side.

Had a momentary panic when I turned off DHCP on the PC/LAN interface and realized that I had misconfigured the WAN side. Once I stopped and thought about it (Heaven thank IE's OFFLINE mode, I was able to find my error that way) -- I was able to connect and correct it.

As an aside -- Vonage preconfigures the VT1000-series units with the username/password and Vonage server information, so they really won't be interested in people "reseting" them as you would a normal SOHO router like a Linksys or a Netgear.