I have a cisco 1760 T1 Router that has been configured correctly from the t1 provider, and reviewed by a cisco certified professional. From the cisco there is an 8 port switch that is connected to 7 different WAP Routers, model BEFW11S4. I would like the routers to disable dhcp service so that the dhcp is controlled exclusively by the main cisco router. I can accomplish this with one to a few by seting a static ip outside the dhcp pool of the cisco router, but on same subnet, turning off dhcp mode, and setting to router mode, as well as connecting to a regular port from the switch, since the Internet port doesn't seem to work with dhcp off, even though linksys tech support swear it does. This works, but I can never get all of the WAPs up before it crashes the lan to the point that a PC plugged directly to the main switch cant get access, im thinking packet flood or something similar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Multiple BEFW11S4 Routers
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Configure each device with it directly plugged into your workstation with a cable, not through the switch. Then deploy the devices on the switch.
The steps you are taking are correct: Disable DHCP and give each device a unique static IP on the same subnet, use regular switch ports connecting to the Uplink port on each Linksys device with straight-through and not cross-over cables. Setting the device to router mode is a good idea, but as the WAN ports are not used not technicly required.
. Do not try to configure them with a wireless link
. Do not try to configure them through the Cisco switch
Connect each one as a directly cabled connection to your workstation to configure.
If these are Version 4 of the BEFW11S4 be certain to upgrade their firmware. Go to: ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/befsr41/
The firmware for the Version 4 of this router was updated July 29, 2003 to Version 1.453 with this file: befw11s4v4-fw-1453.zip.
You should be careful that all have the same SSID but non-overlapping channel assignments of 1-6-11 repeated to minimize overlapping channel coverage areas. You may need to adjust the AP density values in some cases.
A good recent discussion of using double-routers was in a recent Tom's Hardware Guide:
I am curious why WAP11s were not used; or the WRT54G in a new installation such as yours.
The steps you are taking are correct: Disable DHCP and give each device a unique static IP on the same subnet, use regular switch ports connecting to the Uplink port on each Linksys device with straight-through and not cross-over cables. Setting the device to router mode is a good idea, but as the WAN ports are not used not technicly required.
. Do not try to configure them with a wireless link
. Do not try to configure them through the Cisco switch
Connect each one as a directly cabled connection to your workstation to configure.
If these are Version 4 of the BEFW11S4 be certain to upgrade their firmware. Go to: ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/befsr41/
The firmware for the Version 4 of this router was updated July 29, 2003 to Version 1.453 with this file: befw11s4v4-fw-1453.zip.
You should be careful that all have the same SSID but non-overlapping channel assignments of 1-6-11 repeated to minimize overlapping channel coverage areas. You may need to adjust the AP density values in some cases.
A good recent discussion of using double-routers was in a recent Tom's Hardware Guide:
I am curious why WAP11s were not used; or the WRT54G in a new installation such as yours.
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