On 08/03/05 at 02:10 PM, "Don(ald) O. Woodall"

said:


>     I want to reduce my electrical usage.  I want to eliminate my
>Firewall computer and replace it with the DLink DI604 router.

>     I an doing the messing around, learning how to do it, on the
>Firewall computer in the hope that the light will come on so that I will
>know what am doing and how to do it with my
>"Main" computer after all the fussing is over.

I did this not long ago because I exceeded the number of IP addresses that
my license for In-Joy would handle.  The manual for the DLink tells you
its default IP address.  You need to get one computer on your network on
the same net as the DLink.  You can do this from the command line
temporarily by typing "ifconfig lan0 alias 192.168.0.1", for example.  The
address that you use must be on the same network as the DLink, but have a
different last number than the DLink.  Then you can type the DLink's
address into Mozilla to access the configuration program for the router. 
For example, enter http://192.168.0.1 as the URL in Mozilla and press
enter.  The manual that comes with the router will show you which pages
change which features of the router.

After you have saved changes, the router will reset itself.  If you've
changed the internal address of the router to something that's not on your
network, you will have trouble reconnecting.  If you really screw up,
pressing the reset button on the router will return it to the
configuration described in the manual.

I found it easier to change the DLink's internal address to the former
internal address of my firewall machine, so that I didn't have to change
any of the other computers, but you could change the IP addresses of the
other computers to the network of the DLink, or just set them to do DHCP,
as others have indicated.  You can have some computers with fixed
addresses and others with DHCP - assigned addresses.  Just configure the
DHCP part of the router so that the range of addresses that it can assign
excludes those that you've already assigned manually.


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Mike Snyder
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Crash Often?  Not with eCS.
As of 7:45am this eComStation system had been up for 2 days, 20 hours, and
54 minutes.  It's running 50 processes with 192 threads.

MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.67
   "Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, "You're only
interested in one thing," and you can't remember what it is."    
- Milton Berle
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