hardware routers and MyWireless?

Eish. We really need a FAQ section.

Sapphiron, the "wan" port on routers are generally not USB. And even if they were, the router wouldn't know how to talk to the MyWireless modem since it uses a proprietary protocol over USB.

So, you need to get a router, one that will understand PPPoE, and the modem Ethernet cable. Then, you connect the whole happy lot onto a switch, each with it's own cable, and pray like hell that the router will see the modem as a PPPoE modem to use.

The MyWireless Ethernet cable takes the modem out of it's proprietary "niche" to something that other hardware can also understand.


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Sapphiron - if you get it working, let me know - then I'll give it a shot as well.

next plan is to try Windows 2000 Advanced Server - apparently routing and NAT through that is better and "easier" to do.

any comments/suggestions/warnings?

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by chemicalX</i>
<br />Sapphiron - if you get it working, let me know - then I'll give it a shot as well.

next plan is to try Windows 2000 Advanced Server - apparently routing and NAT through that is better and "easier" to do.

any comments/suggestions/warnings?

if all else fails... influence with hammer
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Yeah, try smoothwall, or was I just wasting my time posting ?
 
bb_matt, i replied to your post and told you that i can't use a firewall application because i play an online game - it can't be played through a proxy or firewall.

hence the problem with Kerio.

francois, i have kerio running at the moment, but I'm not getting Star Wars Galaxies to work - greedyfly had a stab at it as well, no luck :(
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by chemicalX</i>
<br />bb_matt, i replied to your post and told you that i can't use a firewall application because i play an online game - it can't be played through a proxy or firewall.

hence the problem with Kerio.

francois, i have kerio running at the moment, but I'm not getting Star Wars Galaxies to work - greedyfly had a stab at it as well, no luck :(
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Oh - sorry - didn't spot that.

No problem, you have full control over the Smoothwall firewall via a web interface - you can open/close any ports you want to, so it's a simple matter of finding which port/s your game uses.
 
Smoothwall is pretty good and you don't need any linux skills to set it up. If I remember correctly, you can also get smoothwall that boots directly off CD

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bb, it's not that simple, unfortunately...

kerio has the same functionality. the ports are fine, it's the routing that's a problem.

i set up the ports in kerio to allow the traffic from SWG and i can see the packets going out, but they don't come back in... well, i don't see them anyway...

*shrug*

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
Hi,

IP-Cop (www.ipcop.org) is a linux based router / firewall to be used on a stand-alone pc.

New ver 1.4 will bring a BLUE zone for wireless connections.

AVR
 
linux based - so i'll have to load linux. [V]

the problem with that is that i have NO idea how to use/configure/administrate linux - it's greek to me...

i would do that as a last resort, before spending R1050 on buying a router and an ethernet cable.

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
Hi,

Download the *.ISO image and burn to CD.

Everything is contained on CD and once setup , you access it via your browser.

Just boot from CD and install . NO Linux OS needed.

AVR
 
What was Dean's suggestion..? Anything useful..

Dean, do you have an Internet Sharing "experience".. not involving ICS :-)

BTW.. I got my kerio working again after a re-cast.
 
greedyfly, Dean suggested that I load Windows 2000 Advanced Server on the machine.

He says that it's "easy" to configure NAT and port forwarding etc on that.

if he says so! :)

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
AVR

sounds easy enough. and that will work like a router?

will it be able to use the MyWireless modem though?

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
Well i am running sentech with PPPoE on a Linux machine, well you see you will have a problem with a hardware router coz... you do get downtime and you do get dissconnected by sentech... so i setup my linux machine running roaring penguin PPPoE (www.roaringpenguin.com) and i route my network traffic trough my machine using iptables.. and it worx wonderfullllllllyy. btw MTU size should be 1460, i am friends with one of the sentech admins.. and by default PPPoE MTU size shoould bee 1460. [:D]

May the source be with you!
 
Jargon, the only problem I have with running the setup you are running is that i don't know the first thing about Linux. So i need someone to help me.

also, you're using PPPoE - that means i have to buy the ethernet cable, right?

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
Hi, yip, I am a CCIE, so have worked with many diffrent forms of ICS, native to windows, via routers, etc. however, I think in chemicalX case a simple 2000 server setup, with routing and remote access will work. Linux probaly would be the best solution, however he does not know how to set it up. the Iptables / Ipchains will cause him problems setting up. [:D]

Keep Surfing
 
speaking of which...

dean, i'm not going to do that machine this weekend, i'll do it when i get back on Tuesday evening. I'm going to go and visit my parents this weekend.

i'm on leave the whole of next week, so i have lots of time to do it then as well.

will give you a shout, okay?

if all else fails... influence with hammer
 
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Hi, yip, I am a CCIE
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Really? What's your CCIE number?

Seeing as there are 10917 CCIE's in the world, and only 82 of them in South Africa, and they're pretty highly paid/in demand, I doubt a CCIE'd be running around doing NAT setups for people and installing antennae.

Then again, I could be wrong. You just don't sound like any of the CCIE's I've met.

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