noobage router+windows setup

[bob]

So Ive had internet for awhile, seems it can do ~1.4Mb up/down if my signal strength is decent. Wireless dsl, ISP has a fancy proxim AP up on their tower about a mile away. I have my windows xp box, Maiden of tawain 802.11g PCI card, and a directional antenna made out of a soup can. I pay them money, they put my MAC adress in, and I have internet. Its nothing extreme or crazy, its just a regular PCI card connecting to a high-dollar outdoor AP.

Now, thats great and all for gaming, downloading useless crap and veiwing hardforum, but I decided to share internet with my brother. Still at my parents house for now, and they dont like the idea of punching holes all over and running cat5 all over the place. I dont like the idea either, because I wont be here for long and I dont feel like doing work.

Just got back from airforce basic, and I had some money burning a hole in my pocket. Bought a Belkin FD72030-4 AP/router for $39.99, yeah yeah I know, I should've got a used WAP54G or whatever that was I was looking at on ebay. Plugged it in, and noticed a problem right away (after I tossed my receipt and packaging in the garbage, long gone at this point). Program says to plug in the modem to the WAN port, and plug in the PC to ports 1-4 (10/100 switch, bridged to the wireless if I remember right).

Installed DSL linux on my packard bells hard drive, got it set up with SSH, FTP and www. Can ping back and forth, etc etc. All good there. I decide, what the hell why not. Plug the cable from my PC into the wan port, set the NIC's IP to 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0, and it does nothing.

Ive spent about the last two days messing with this. Between the packard bell freezing up from its massive 33Mhz overclock, to windows xp wiping my IP numbers... Ive had it. Im willing to admit that I probably dont have any idea what the hell im doing. (Btw the packard is just there for shits and giggles, I dont have any other box to put linux up on *yet*. Looking forward to making the switch to linux, but I must learn to use it first. Thought I might run an OpenTTD server on the packard).

Screenshots:

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Im sorry for the horrible compression, but I had to do this. apache on my PC fuxxored, my good webhost is moving locations, and geocities has a 4Mb houry limit... Anyways, can anyone here offer some suggestions? every time I give my NIC 192.168.0.1, it says its already in use (as if the routers WAN port is set to that). Im fairly sure that ICS must use 192.168.0.1 as the sharing nic's IP or else it doesnt work, although I could be wrong.

Like I said, Im not really sure what to put in when it comes to WAN. The xp box is the "modem" or internet source, im a bit confused there. And the Macos-ey ness of the routers GUI doesnt help either...

 

[jpmkm]

Are you sure you have ICS configured properly? IIRC, it'll set the IP address on the interface for you; you shouldn't have to put an IP address in. Also, the router isn't getting any DHCP information from the windows xp box, so that indicates ICS isn't running/configured properly.

Another thing, since you're using ICS(or will be, anyway), you really don't need to use the router functionality of the router; it'll just complicate things and it's not necessary. You should be able to disable DHCP on the router and plug the windows xp box into the LAN side of it. The other systems hooked up to the router will grab DHCP information from the windows XP box.

 

[Malk-a-mite]

Another thing, since you're using ICS(or will be, anyway), you really don't need to use the router functionality of the router; it'll just complicate things and it's not necessary. You should be able to disable DHCP on the router and plug the windows xp box into the LAN side of it. The other systems hooked up to the router will grab DHCP information from the windows XP box.

I personally would go the other direction - use the Belkin as the made router for the network.

Or if you really prefer the XP box to do ICS, plug the XP box running ICS into one of the LAN ports and with the other system. Basically just using it as a AP and switch.

 

[jpmkm]

I personally would go the other direction - use the Belkin as the made router for the network.

That would be ideal(I hate ICS), but would also require additional hardware to get his ISP's wifi signal to the router. I'm not much of a wireless guy, though, so I don't know exactly what would be required for such a setup.

 

[bob]

Ive already gotten the router and packard online. Seems I had 192.169.0.1 instead of 192.168.0.1 . Cant imagine how I missed that one... No wonder the damn thing wasnt working.

Id prefer to use the router as the.. well, internet gateway. ICS pisses me off and it just plain sucks. Problem is now, I cant do shit while my PC is hooked to the WAN port. trying to figure out how I can open up everything.