BLU-RAY

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by BrianR

Yes, I can access the bridge with a computer via ethernet. I can run the wizard. But once the wizard is run, it reboots the bridge (normal) and slaps a password on the bridge so that I cannot get back into it without resetting the thing to it's factory configuration.

The default seems to be user: admin, password blank. If it's unilaterally assigning something after configuration, that's very odd.

This video probably tells nothing useful that you don't already know.



But it does suggest using WPS, which I have never used. It also seems to suggest plugging all your devices in before you run the configuration--though it's a bit ambiguous, you might try it.

I don't know if a static IP address would help. Theoretically you should be able to look at the router and see what address was assigned to it. Of course, theoretically once the bridge has authenticated itself onto the wireless network, the devices plugged into it should see the network on the other side of the bridge, and that doesn't seem to be happening. At any rate, you ought to be able to give the bridge itself a static ip address--just tell it not to use DHCP.

tw is correct that a bridge, strictly speaking, does not need to have an IP address. But they often do, so you can connect to it over the network to configure it. (This address may be "in band," part of the network, or "out of band," a completely different network only used for the admin connection. In fact I wonder if that may be what's happening here.)

At any rate, this is getting very close to the limit of what help I can give without having the devices in my hands and using a hammer on them.

[tw]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

tw is correct that a bridge, strictly speaking, does not need to have an IP address. But they often do, so you can connect to it over the network to configure it.

When configuring, the device is not a bridge. Once its configuration is enabled, the bridge is enabled and IP addresses no longer exist. A bridge only echos packets. Looking at an IP address means higher level functions that a bridge always ignores.

Once put into bridge mode, there is no login or password. No DHCP. Does not care what any IP addresses are. Does not know nor care if addresses are static or dynamic. Ignores and does no encryption. Those are higher level functions that a bridge ignores. A bridge simply echos all incomng packets onto other networks. Does not look at any packets. Therefore would not see any IP address. And no longer has any login functions.

How to login to a bridge? Reset the hardware. Then it is no longer a bridge. Then it has a default login and password. Then it has an IP address.