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Cisco Router and Security Device Manager Quick Start Guide
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Task 5: Reconnect to the Router Using the New IP Address
Task 5: Reconnect to the Router Using the New IP Address
If you changed the IP address of the router LAN interface as recommended in the SDM Express wizard,
you lost your connection to the router. Follow these steps to reconnect to your router:
Step 1 Reconfigure your PC if necessary. If you configured a DHCP server on the router in Task 4, configure
the PC to obtain an IP address automatically, as shown in Figure 1 on page 2. If the router was already
configured as a DHCP server but the address pool has changed, open a command window on the PC and
enter ipconfig /release, followed by ipconfig /renew to obtain a new IP address from the router.
If you did not configure a DHCP server on the router, your network uses static IP addresses, and you
must assign a new IP address to the PC Ethernet interface. Place it on the same subnet as the router’s
Ethernet port, which you configured in Task 4. Figure 7 shows an example PC configuration when the
router LAN IP address is 20.20.20.1 (as indicated by the Default gateway field) and the subnet mask is
255.255.255.0. The PC is configured with an IP address of 20.20.20.2, an address on the same subnet as
the router.
Figure 7 If you did not configure the router as a DHCP server, configure the PC with a static IP
address (Example)
Step 2 Open a web browser and enter the new IP address that you gave the router LAN interface.
http://
new-IP-address
For example, if you gave the LAN interface the IP address 20.20.20.1, you would enter the following
command in the browser.
http://20.20.20.1
Step 3 Enter the username and password that you specified in Task 4. If SDM is installed on your router, the
SDM home page appears, as shown in Figure 8.
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