Home Network Setup.

I have a Siemens SE567 Wireless Gateway, which I am using as a wired unit. It has 4 ports and #4 is marked 'WAN' which I did not pay any attention to because I was only connecting 4 PC's.

However, I now wish to connect another PC and have an old Linksys Router which I would like to use for this.

The Siemens Address is 192.168.254.254 and the Linksys 192.168.1.1. In the Linksys Setup there is also a choice as to the mode to be used, either as a Gateway or as a Router.

If anyone knowledgeable in system setup could let me have directions as to how to go about doing this, either via the Forum or else directly via E-Mail, I certainly would appreciate it.

I should add also that the Siemens was installed as part of an ADSL Enhanced connection, whereas the Linksys was one I used with my previous regular ADSL connection and so am therefore not even sure whether it would work with the faster speed.

Many Thanks.

 

By the forum please. Part of the service provided by this forum is a history of other people's problems and the solutions that fixed them. This wouldn't happen if people e-mailed all the solutions and only the individual with the original problem read the solution.

 

If all you want to do is add more ports, all you have to do is run a cable between the two routers. Older (3-4 years or more) used to require that the cable was cross-over, but that should not be a problem with recent kit. You do not have to program a multi-port router to act as a switch; it acts as a switch out of the box.

However, you will need to turn off DHCP on the Linksys router, so that it doesn't give out IP addresses. You only want one DHCP server on the network, and for your network, that will be Siemens.

 

Thank you for the suggestion, and the advice.

Unfortunately, when one tries to disable DHCP, one gets the message - "The Webpage you requested is not available offline. To view this page click connect ", which does not do anything because the connection cannot succeed when there is something in the setup which prevents this.

 

I expect your system might be swapping IP address halfway through the process. OK - let's go the long way round.

• Set the IP address on one of your computers to 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0 and connect that computer to the Linksys router by cable.
• Go into the router's set up and disable DHCP
• Connect the Linksys to the Seimens via a cable
• Go back into the computer and change the IP from statically assigned 192.168.1.2 to automatically assigned.

The computer should now pick up a 192.168.254.0 address from the Seimens router. If it does it shows that the link between the two routers is working and that DHCP is running on the Seimens PC correctly (though you'd need to packet sniff to be absolutely sure).

 

Unfortunately, as I indicated in my previous posting, I cannot disable DHCP because I cannot get past the - "Webpage you requested is not available offline." message, and I can't connect the Linksys to the Internet because it does not recognize the enhanced high speed signal.

 

If you follow the procedure I described, you should be able to turn DHCP off in the Linksys config.

 

I decided to do a thorough clinical evaluation of this problem and finally ripped the router from the system and beat it to death.

Realizing that that was most probably a mistake, I borrowed a D-Link DI-704UP Router from a friend and tried to get that working.

After much cursing and swearing, I finally (nearly) succeeded in achieving what I was trying to accomplish.

I now have 3 PC's connected to the Siemens and all are working well.

The cable from the 4th port of the Siemens is connected to the D-Link Router, and a 4th PC is connected to that, in preparation for connecting the 5th, which I intended to do originally, and which was the start of my problems.

Everything on the 4th PC appears to be correct, and I even get the correct readings when I check the IP Address using 'ipconfig /all'

However, I cannot connect to the Internet.

I tried to reset the readings starting with 'ipconfig /release' and received the following message:-

"Windows IP Configuration

The operation failed as no adapter is in the state permissable for this operation ".

I can ping this 4th PC from the other 3, but I cannot ping any of the others from it.

I certainly would appreciate any suggestions as to how to resolve this minor problem, as I suspect the eventual solution will show that this is exactly what it is.

Possibly it has something to do with Port Forwarding by the Siemens but anything to do with that is WAAAY beyond me.

Many Thanks.

 

To anyone who has been agonizing over my dilemma , and for anyone who may encounter a similar situation, I have solved my problem.

After a further thorough clinical evaluation of the problem, aka 'Blind Luck', I decided to try connecting the cable from the Siemens to one of the LAN Ports on the Router, rather than to the WAN Port I had been using, and the problem went the way of the dinosaurs.

Many Thanks to all who replied previously.