Magnet Broadband Issue

cormicar

I have just bought an eircom netopia 2247 wireless router , 2 days ago, and as you know it doesnt have a WAN port , it only has an ADSL port.

My problem is as follows:
I have magnet fibre to the home broadband and they installed a Packet Front 8 port switch which privides 7 public ip addresses.

I can connect 2 PC's to the switch and both get 87.x.x.x addresses and can access the net fine. The problem is they can not ping each other hence no network. I need to install another router in between the Packet Front switch and my 2 PC's.

Is it possible to conect one of the eircom netopia's 2247 LAN ports(as the netopia has no WAN port) to the Packet Front and run 2 PC's from lan pots 2 and 3 on the netopia - essentially using one of the LAN ports as a WAN port.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Snowbat

Which model Packet Front? DRG 200?

You won't be able to use a Netopia 2247 for what you have in mind because it won't do NAT between LAN sockets. You need a router with an ethernet WAN port (cable broadband router) for that.

Have you asked Magnet? If you install an 8 port managed switch as Customer Premesis Equipment, customers will obviously want to use it to share files and printers on their home network.

cormicar

Ok - I have solved the problem. It was an error on my part. The reson I couldn't ping either PC is because of Noton Firewall. This has now been fixed and my wireless laptop(connected wirelessly to the netopia which in turn is wired to a packetfront LAN port) can share files with my desktop connected directly to the packet front.

I think it's a drg 200 - it looks like the one on their web site.

I also had to enable bridging on the wireless router to pass the public address's sent from the switch onto my laptop.

I can now stream movies and music from my wireless laptop and wired desktop to my xbox 360 which is connected to another netopia LAN port.

Turns out I didn't require a router with a WAN port surprisingly enough but thanks for your comments.

Snowbat

Well you would need one if you wanted a private network (eg. 192.168.x.x addresses) and NAT to the internet but since you got it running using public IP addresses... :cool:

I suggest you check if the DRG is firewalling ports 137, 138, 139, 445 from upstream. If not, you may find your shares under a brute-force password attack from a botnet. You could configure your client firewalls to allow traffic only from 87.x.x.x addresses on these ports.

Jaoibh

2 x network cards and 1 x cross over cable
put them on a 192.168.0.x range.

Problem solved full internet access using the magnet router and full LAN access.