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Problem adding sonicwall to network

  • 29-04-2008 10:08am
    #1
    corkman80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭


    Hi All

    Apologies in advance for the long post

    I am doing a job for a friend who has an existing broadband connection and small network.

    The setup is as follows:
    Broadband comes from Irish Broadband, a wireless connection which presents a network cable to the user.

    The network cable is going into a SMC 7004VBR router which has 4 LAN ports which the PC's a plugged into. The SMC has a static WAN IP address and assigns the PC's DHCP addresses in the 192.168.2.100 - 199 range.

    They now have a requirement for 10 pc's connected wirelessly to another cabin and they have run a network cable from the SMC to the cabin and purchased a SonicWall TZ180 to deliver wired and wireless access.

    SO basically there is internet connectivity in the new cabin, I tested it with my laptop. I have powered up the Sonicwall, plugged the new cable into the WAN port and run the setup wizard. I set the sonicwall with a static LAN IP address of 192.168.2.199 and set it to assign DHCP addresses in the 192.168.200-211 range.

    For the WAN IP address on the Sonicwall it picks up a 192168.2... address off the SMC.

    My problem is that I cannot ping another computer connected to the SMC through the laptop on the SonicWall.
    I cannot ping 192.168.2.1 which is the address of the SMC when you do an ipconfig on a machine connected to it and I obviousluy cannot access the WEB which is all I really want.

    I have tried using the WAN IP address on the SMC on the sonicwall but to no avail also.

    I cam constantly getting the error "DNS lookup failed, please check your DNS server settings" on the SonicWall

    Any help GREATLY apreciated!!!!

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    ob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭ob


    What Firewall access rules are set up?

    Are you running SonicOS standard or enhanced, and what version?


  • #3
    corkman80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭corkman80


    There are noe firewall rules setup on the SMC and I didnt setup any on the sonicwall so I presume there are no rules.
    I am not sure of the version or the OS, I am not next to the system today. I just got it yesterday and unpacked it so I havemt upgraded the OS on it so I presume it is the standard OS that just is on it when its unpacked.

    Sorry for the scant details


  • #4
    WizZard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    AFAIK the Sonicwall firewalls block ping from the WAN by default. they come with a basic rules setup (dependent on whether you run Standard or Enhanced)


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