[Doc Wu]

Just so that someone reading this thread that is really new to networking understands what is happening, I'm going to state the what many of us think is obvious:

You can only have communications between devices that are on the same network.

If your computer has it's ethernet port set to 192.168.1.x and the netmask is 255.255.255.0 you can communicate with any other device on 192.168.1.xxx where xxx = 1-254

As soon as you reconfigure a router, bridge, or computer to a different network by changing it's IP address and netmask to something like 10.xx.xx.xx and a netmask of 255.0.0.0, you will lose the ability to communicate with it. This happens when you save the settings in the router/bridge and it reboots.

You can't reestablish the link until you change the computer's IP address and netmask to match the new network.

10.xx.xx.xx with a netmask of 255.0.0.0 can work with any combination of IPs in the 10.xx.xx.xx block, far more than the 192.168.1.xx example. That's necessary because of the wide range of IPs due to team numbers.

The bridge is configured first, because it will not be able to communicate with either the computer or the router once it's network changes, until both the computer and router are changed.

The router is configured next, because it is still communicating with the computer.

Lastly, you change the IP address on the computer and everyone should now communicate on the 10.x.x.x net.

The only DHCP service is in the router (if it is turned on) I don't believe the bridge has it. So you shouldn't rely on that, except for maybe multiple programming computers that don't run the dashboard. But get fixed addressing working first. (Setting your computer's interface to "Automatically get IP address" is a DHCP client not service.)

It doesn't much matter whether you configure the bridge while connected to the router or directly to the computer as long as you can find it's current IP address. As timberger pointed out, you can get a feedback path later if it is plugged into the router.

If you have previously configured the bridge, or tried to configure it, it may not be on the default address. The only way to be sure it is found at 192.168.1.250 is a hard reset by pressing the reset button for 20-30 seconds.

The same thing goes for the router and it's default address.

It is difficult to configure the bridge or router using wireless because for security reasons, the administration interface is usually disabled from the wireless side of things. That's why the need for plugging in the bridge with a cable during the configuration.

If you understand all of this, you may be able to wing it through the setup by yourself. If not sure, you absolutely need to follow the instructions in the controls set-up explicitly, step-by-step, possibly with the exception of the correction of unplugging the bridge earlier than indicated.