On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:42 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:42:51 -0700 > wes <[email protected]> dijo: > > >you can put tomato or another aftermarket firmware on it, but this is > >probably not ideal in your situation. > > I tried to understand the tomato pages, but it was even more confusing > than the Linksys configuration pages. > > >For simplicity, I advise putting the Linksys in place of the D-Link. > >You can configure it however you want. > > > >Since you're not going to do that, what you need to do is use the > >Linksys as a switch rather than a router. The way to do this is to > >leave the Internet (or input) port empty, and connect the Linksys to > >the D-Link on one of the numbered LAN ports. Use the Linksys' > >configuration webpage to change its local IP to 192.168.0.something, > >preferably something you can remember, like 2. Then, turn OFF its > >internal DHCP server. Now it will act just like a wireless switch. > > Understood. But it doesn't work. > > First I connected a cable from my 16-port switch to one of the numbered > ports on the Linksys. I was unable to connect to the Linksys via > 192.168.1.1 or -0.1. I also tried moving the cable from the 16-port > switch to the D-Link router, but I got the same results. > > Then it dawned on me that it is transmitting, so I should be able to > connect to it from the laptop. I did another factory reset (so I would > know for sure that the address is 192.168.1.1), removed all cables, and > the laptop was able to connect to it. > > Then I set its address to 192.168.0.99, because the rest of the network > is -0-. I connected a cable from one of the numbered ports to the > D-Link router. > > And finally I went into the Administration tab and set a password. > > It all appears to be fine, except that the phone cannot get an IP > address. It sees it, but the Linksys is refusing the connection. I > assume this is because the phone expects to connect to a DHCP server, > and the Linksys is no longer doing that. > > The D-Link is acting as the DHCP server for your network. If the Linksys is in switch mode, the D-Link's DHCP server will work for your phone. The problem is something else. > >As far as wireless security, MAC address based lockdowns are useless. > >You can set a WPA password and put that into the phone and laptop. > > I set a password in the Administration tab. Is that where I set the WPA > password? > That's the password for the management interface for the Linksys. In the management pages, there should be a Wireless tab, and a Wireless Security sub-tab. WEP bad, WPA good. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
