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hawk_2050
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      10-24-2005
Hi All,

hoping someone may be able to help here as I'm sure plenty of people
must have wanted to do the same thing as me.

I am trying to get a Linksys wireless access point/router (WRT54G) (i.e
performs both functions) working together with an ADSL modem/router
(Dynalink RTA210) and am finding it a little confusing. I'm imagining
that the modem should be configured to work in bridge mode and the
WAP/router then becomes the Gateway and initiates the connection with
the ISP, however I have not been able to make sense of how that would
actually be implemented.

Basically I want to use the Linksys's router functionality as it's more
advanced and comprehensive than the modems router capabilities, and
have the modem/router acting as a transparent data pipe. The Linksys
router has to be told the kind of internet connection I have (from it's
perspective). The choices are:
DHCP
Static IP
PPPoE
PPTP

If the modem has been configured to work in Bridge mode (Encapsulation
type: Bridge, VC_MUX) then does the public IP address assigned by the
ISP get assigned to the modem or to the WAN side of the Linksys router?
Does the modem have any IP addresses associated with it? (apart from
admin web interface)
Does the modem handle the conversion from PPPoA (connection type
between ISP and modem) to whatever the router see's? What will that be
from the choices above?

I'm not concerned with the wireless side of things just yet, just want
to get wired side of things working.

If you've got some clues about what should be going on I'd really
appreciate hearing about it!

Thanks very much.

Cheers
Richard

 
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Lanmeister
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      10-31-2005
Richard

If I understand, you have an adsl router and wireless router. You want to
connect wirelessly to the internet using these. If I got this right do this:

1. Setup ADSL router as per a normal ADSL connection - PPOA; Encapsulation
is LLC and authentication is PAP.
2. Setup a fixed IP address on the router and make it give out DHCP
addresses for the computers on your network - with ONE exception - the main
one used to configure it. This just makes it easier to manage the two
routers.
3. Once the ADSL router is working and you can talk to the Internet, setup
the wireless router. Give it a fixed IP on the same subnet as the ADSL
router. You might have to play around changing subnets unless you use the
default one setup for you whole network.
5. When you set the IP on the wireless, set the gateway IP to that of the
ADSL router (if the IP of the ADSL is 192.168.0.1, then the gateway address
of the wireless should also be 192.168.0.1).

This should all work properly giving you wireless access to the internet -
it's how I have mine setup using a DLINK DSL-504 ADSL router and LinkSys
WAP54G wireless router.

Things you MUST do for your own protection:
1. Change the default user name and passwords for both routers
2. Lock down the wireless router to the MAC addresses of the wireless cards
you want to use it
3. If you want to go the whole hog, setup WEP encryption.

Any other help, jsut mail me.

Lanmeister


"hawk_2050" <> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> hoping someone may be able to help here as I'm sure plenty of people
> must have wanted to do the same thing as me.
>
> I am trying to get a Linksys wireless access point/router (WRT54G) (i.e
> performs both functions) working together with an ADSL modem/router
> (Dynalink RTA210) and am finding it a little confusing. I'm imagining
> that the modem should be configured to work in bridge mode and the
> WAP/router then becomes the Gateway and initiates the connection with
> the ISP, however I have not been able to make sense of how that would
> actually be implemented.
>
> Basically I want to use the Linksys's router functionality as it's more
> advanced and comprehensive than the modems router capabilities, and
> have the modem/router acting as a transparent data pipe. The Linksys
> router has to be told the kind of internet connection I have (from it's
> perspective). The choices are:
> DHCP
> Static IP
> PPPoE
> PPTP
>
> If the modem has been configured to work in Bridge mode (Encapsulation
> type: Bridge, VC_MUX) then does the public IP address assigned by the
> ISP get assigned to the modem or to the WAN side of the Linksys router?
> Does the modem have any IP addresses associated with it? (apart from
> admin web interface)
> Does the modem handle the conversion from PPPoA (connection type
> between ISP and modem) to whatever the router see's? What will that be
> from the choices above?
>
> I'm not concerned with the wireless side of things just yet, just want
> to get wired side of things working.
>
> If you've got some clues about what should be going on I'd really
> appreciate hearing about it!
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>



 
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EMB
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      10-31-2005
Lanmeister wrote:

> Things you MUST do for your own protection:
> 1. Change the default user name and passwords for both routers
> 2. Lock down the wireless router to the MAC addresses of the wireless cards
> you want to use it
> 3. If you want to go the whole hog, setup WEP encryption.


3a. Turn on WPA encryption
4. Turn off SSID broadcasting


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