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Help setting up wireless router in the caymans

  • 05-05-2006 1:32am
    #1
    scubalael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Hello all. First time poster. I'm looking for a little help getting my linksys model wrt54gs router hooked up to my netopia 3341 modem. I've tried everything i can think of to no avail. The modem will asign an IP address to any computer that gets plugged into it, but the router is a different story. I've tried cloning the mac address of a computer that's able to get the internet when plugged directly into the modem, but still nothing. If anyone could perhaps give me a step by step on what settings I need to plug in to get this working it would be greatly appriciated. Thanks ScubaLael


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  • #2
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    you need to set the Netopia modem into bridge mode (read manual on how to do this). Then connect it to the internet port of linksys using ethernet cable.

    Then setup linksys with the connection details for your ISP (presumably PPPoE), same way modem was.


  • #3
    scubalael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭scubalael


    I'll try that and post back. Thanks.


  • #4
    scubalael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭scubalael


    For anyone else who can't figure this out. All that needs to be done is changing the ip address of the router to 192.168.2.5 I was having a conflict where the router was 192.168.1.1 and the modem was 192.168.1.254. Anyways, leave it on DHCP and you'll be good to go with that ip address. Thanks for the idea though.


  • #5
    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    No confilct there, the conflict is probably coming from the modem DHCP and the WRT54GS DHCP servers, if you put the modem into bridge mode this will solve that confilct as the modem will stop trying to give out IPs. Good you managed to get it to work yourself though, best way to learn.

    Munster


  • #6
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Yep, what MC said is correct.


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  • #7
    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    Are the DHCP pools of the two DHCP servers in conflict?


  • #8
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Yeah the DHCP server on the netopia by default allocates ip address from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.253. 192.168.1.1 is the default address of the linksys router. Hence the ip conflict occuring. By changing the ip address range of the netopia, the dhcp server on it will allocate ip addresses in a different range so there is no conflict with the linksys.

    Best solution is to put netopia into bridge mode. More efficient.


  • #9
    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    Agreed, bridge mode is yer only man. /Much mutual (sp?) back slapping/


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