ELK XEP IP question

[pgershon]

I have my XEP set to a static IP address and all worked fine until we picked up Verizon FIOS and replaced our router.  New router operates on a different subnet, so while my router address is 192.168.1.1, the XEP is set to 192.168.0.40.  I am away from my house and I have no ability to physically change setting.  I want to access my virtual keypad with the XEP, but when it is in the x.x.0.x subnet and not the x.x.1.x like my router, I am stuck.  ElkRP can "find" my XEP but I cant change its IP address (I cant "connect" to the XEP to change settings).  I know a fix would be to get my router to the x.x.0.x addresses, but I am afraid to do that remotely because I might lose access to the network in the process (I am getting in from a screen share on a computer with IP x.x.1.2.  I would need to simultaeously change the router and PC IP addresses - if I get one and not the other I am locked out).
 
Bottom line question is can I communicate with the XEP at a different subnet than my router?  Is there a setting on the router that might facilitate?

 

[tmbrown97]

If you're comfortable enough with networking, you can add a second IP address to the computer you're remoting into.  First you'd have to set its address on x.x.1.x as static, then add something similar in x.x.0.x so it'll be able to talk on both subnets - then you'll be able to talk to the XEP.  That's an acceptable workaround if all you want is the XEP's web interface; if you want something like eKeypad, then you can use this new connection to connect via RP2 and change the XEP's IP address to the new subnet and update any port forwarding rules in the router.
 
Changing IP's on the router would be dangerous because while the PC's would probably eventually get new IP's, it could take a day or two for them to update DHCP depending on settings; if you're getting in with logmein, it should eventually come back on, but it may not; if you're using port forwarding, you'd just be kinda screwed.

 

[pgershon]

Thank you.  Worked perfectly.