On Saturday 20 April 2002 11:11 pm, Shaun wrote:
> Thanks for the swift response Simon. After getting the green and red
> interfaces on different subnets I can now ping the router and open up
> its web interface through the ipcop box. A huge step forward but...
>
> Enabling DHCP on the router and setting the red interface to DHCP
> gives me a "connected" (time...) in the "Home AW" but I can not ping
> anything outside the lan.
>
> At no time has the Data light come on to indicate that traffic is
> travelling out or in.
Shaun
Strangely I was thinking about this in the night. (Bit more interesting
than trying to count sheep!) Does the cable between the modem/router and your
firewall box need to be a cross over one? Maybe someone can answer this for
us.
Nick E
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>
> In the Control Panel for the router the PPPoA connection info shows
> absolutely nothing. When connected without going through ipcop box
> there was a line here showing the status of the connection -
> establishing/connected etc
>
> Perhaps 1/2 a nights sleep will help. Any other thoughts will be
> appreciated.
>
> Shaun
>
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:55:30 +1200, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Yeah I had a similar problem...I got it working in the end, although my
> > hard drive on the ipcop machine has just died :(.
> >
> >Anyway there were a couple of things I changed to make it work.
> >First you need to make sure your green and red interfaces are on different
> >subnets. I think the default ip address for the router is usually
> >192.168.0.1, so you could make your internal network 192.168.1.x.
> >
> >Secondly, I fiddled around the the dhcp settings on my router (an asus
> > one), and set the time for one session down to an hour, I don't know why
> > this was an issue but it seemed to work after this.
> >
> >Finally, when configuring ipcop (login as setup), the red interface (the
> > one connected to the modem) should be using DHCP and you'll need to give
> > it a name (eg, ipcop).
> >
> >Anyway hope that helps,
> >later
> >Simon
> >
> >On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:42, Shaun wrote:
> >> I have had an IPCOP box active as a firewall for my dial up connection
> >> for a few weeks now but have just purchased a Dynalink RTA 020 and
> >> subscribed to Jetstart and cannot figure out how to configure IPCOP
> >> and the RTA 020 to allow me to use them together. The RTA 020 works
> >> fine with its default settings when connected directly to the hub but
> >> when trying to go out via the IPCOP machine I cannot seem to get it to
> >> work.
> >>
> >> Any light thrown on this would be appreciated.
> >> _______________________________________________________
> >> Subject: RE: Adsl modems
> >> From: Craig Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 09:21:38 +1300
> >>
> >> Dynalink RTA 020 is a beauty wee router, and not a lot more expensive
> >> than a
> >> modem.
> >>
> >> A 3com dual link is good, but they haven't been made for 6+ months
> >> now.
> >> Alcatel ST Home is quite cheap, and does PPTP to the firewall linux
> >> box who
> >> is then responsible for NAT.
> >>
> >> > ----------
> >> > From: Simon Hansman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> > Sent: Monday, 4 March 2002 07:35
> >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> > Subject: Adsl modems
> >> >
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I'm about to get JetStart and was wondering on peoples experience with
> >> > adsl
> >> > modems. What I want to do is run Smoothwall or IPCop on an old P133,
> >> > then have two networks in it, one to an 8 Port 10/100mbps switching
> >> > hub and the
> >> >
> >> > other to an external adsl modem (I was thinking of getting an Asus
> >> > AAM-6000EV). Any suggestions? I see you can get pci adsl
> >> > modems...what's the support for these like under linux?
> >> >
> >> > Anything else I should be thinking about?
> >> >
> >> > Cheers
> >> > Simon
