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Date:  Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:00:39 -0500 (EST)
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From:  "Hakan" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  "os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Linksys Wireless Router Configuration

Alan,

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:58:48 -0500, Alan Beagley wrote:

>I have the same router with my cable Internet connection, but I have it 
>configured as DHCP server in conjunction with fixed IP addresses on each 
>machine -- 192.168.1.1xx. This works fine for me, and I don't see why 
>the same wouldn't work with a DSL modem. But I have no VoIP "in circuit" 
>to confuse matters.
>
>I've never used the CD that came with the router. I've done all the 
>configuration -- and even firmware updates -- using Mozilla to access 
>the router at 192.168.1.1.

And how is it configured?  That's what I need to now so I can see if it
would work for me as well, DHCP server excepted.

>
>Don't know whether this helps.
>
>-=-
>Alan
>
>
>On 03/31/05 09:35 pm Hakan tossed the following ingredients into the 
>ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
>
>> I have a small SOHO network with a Verizon Westell 2200 DSL modem
>> currenctly functioning as the router and as a DHCP server.  The
>> computers, and the print server, all have static IP addresses on my
>> network and the Westell modem is configured as 192.168.1.1.  In
>> addition I have a Lingo VoIP adapter which uses DHCP to get a local IP
>> address.  At the moment /all/ devices are connected to an old 10-Mbps
>> hub.  (For those interested, Lingo can be reached at www.lingo.com and
>> is interesting because it offers unlimited calling to 17 countries
>> besides the U.S. and Canada.)
>> 
>> I just bought a Linksys router -- model WRT54G -- with the intent to
>> integrate it into the network and to have the Lingo VoIP adapter sit
>> between the Westell DSL modem and the Linksys router (the recommended
>> configuration); the computers and the printserver connected to the
>> Linksys, of course.  The Lingo VoIP adapter should be between the DSL
>> modem and the Linksys router so that it can prioritize voice traffic
>> over other network traffic when necessary.  The current hub will be
>> decommissioned.
>> 
>> I hooked up the Linksys as 192.168.1.2 per above and disabled the DHCP
>> server in the Linksys since I want to continue to have the Westell be
>> the DHCP server.  While I could reach the statically configured
>> computers on the network I was unable to get onto the net -- despite
>> having configured the Linksys as a router, not a gateway.
>> 
>> What else do I need to change?  I need to add that this is an all-OS/2
>> network, hence I cannot run the CD-ROM software supplied with the
>> Linksys.
>
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