I have a Ruckus 2211. It behaves strangely when I give its IP address a name (for example in the hosts file) and try to access it. Once I have defined “ruckus” to be 192.168.30.1, if I go to http://ruckus, it rewrites the URL to be “http://192.168.30.1ruckus/” which of course causes an error.

I can get around this by just going to the box with the raw IP address (ugly) which it then rewrites to https://192.168.30.1/index.html and I can log in.

However, this is not just ugly, because I also want to administer the box remotely via ssh port forwarding. In other words, I forward a port on my local machine to 192.168.30.1:80 via a machine behind the Ruckus which I can ssh to. However, that means my URL in the browser can’t be just the raw IP, it is going to be localhost:forwardport, and after the rewrite, it is unusable. vnc is the only way I have found to get in.

Why this strange rewrite? Can it be fixed or gotten around? Remote administration would also work.

A few other questions: Any hope for other standard router features, such as dynamic DNS and pre-set static DHCP for devices on the local net. (Port forwarding is not very useful if the address of the device you want to forward to can change on you.) Without these I need to have another box such as a linksys behind the Ruckus and that is kinda silly.