Anthony wrote:
On 25/04/11 04:15, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Do you have a LinkSys router with an IP address other than 192.168.1.1 , or even better with an address other than 192.168.1.* ? If you have, could you tell me _how_ you did it, please. I don't really care _why_ you did it.
The instructions on the router only explain how to set it up (with address 192.168.1.1) attached directly to an ADSL modem. I could do that, but I don't want to ...
The reason you might want to stick with the 192.168.1.* IP address is because when you have a need to reset to factory defaults, you'll find it takes some extra steps to reconnect to it (can be done by adding a slave IP address to the NIC attached to your AP; ip addr add 192.168.1.x/24 dev ethx) to reconfigure. In my case, I simply changed my internal network to suit the Linksys and never looked back.
I have my set up as follows:
(Pardon my ASCII art if it fails to render properly once I hit send)
| Internet |----| 5-port switch |----| CentOS 5 Box |----| 8-port switch |
| V<<<----------------------------------------------------<<< | V ----------------
--|Linksys WRT54G|
----------------My internal devices (192.168.1.x/24) are attached to the 8-port switch. I use only 2-ports on the 5 port switch to connect the ADSL modem to the server. All DHCP, DNS, Firewalling, is done on the CentOS box. I know most will cringe on the next few words, but I happen to like the way it is setup. On the ADSL modem, I've set the CentOS box as the DMZ so that I can control all Nating on the server. It has not failed me for the last 6 years I've been doing this. The key is to have a deny,allow firewall policy - meaning the policy on all chains is DROP, then I puunch the holes I need.
Hopefully not too much verbiage.
Cheers, Ak.
His ADSL modem is already on 192.168.1.x subnet, so CentOS WAN NIC already uses it. And I do not expect resetting router to defaults every week. Maybe never.
Ljubomir