Been spoiled by using Consumer grade routers for nearly a decade now and thought is was time to wade into a Cisco Product with ample warnings from my supplier that these products aren't simple to configure. Point taken but hopefully with a little more insight from this forum maybe I can work past these issues?
Dynamic WAN ... Static P2P LAN ... Static WLAN (HIDDEN SSID, WPA PSK, MAC FILTERED) ... NO DMZ ... NO DHCP ... one Router ... 2 switches ... 1 Static Access Point
Using SDM express and SDM Configuration software I was able to get a simple WAN and LAN connection. However after presumably enabling the Firewall and NAT the grc.com security tools shows most of the LAN ports are wide open and the WAN is replying to pings??? I see there is a Commandline FAQ that addresses the Ports but is there a SDM solution?
Would it be correct to assume that these products are not configured with any default set of rules for NAT and Firewall? ie That all ports must be blocked by user defined rules? If so is there somewhere I can download the most common set of internet rules for this Router?
After some trial and error I was able to configure a WPA link with help from Cisco's online documentation ... this link shows up on my Laptop as an encrypted link but it won't connect so not sure if its because I am not using Cisco's Laptop Network Config Software to reconfigure my Intel/ProSet card
or
Is there some documentation that explains the concept of having a VLAN attached to the WLAN? Why are they using a TKIP-WEP-128 setting for a WPA configuration? ... the documentation also specified using an IP of 10.1.6.1/16 for the ROUTER VLAN ip address ... the SDM software doesn't appear to accept any combination of IP/Mask in the VLAN setting ... I finally used a Bridge VLAN to configure the WLAN because SDM kept giving me an IP and Mask error for a ROUTER VLAN. Perhaps the bridge configuration is why the WLAN is not connecting?
I was able to set up a serial Consol and attempted to do a:
show running-config ... this fails ... a show ? reveals that running-config is not in the list of available subcommands?
I noticed that the majority of postings here provide a listing of the router configs ... is show running-config used to make these if so how do I access this command?
The SDM install process inferred I could install SDM on the Router but the FLASH space only has 2M free space out of 11M basically stating there was not enough room on the flash disk ... from the File menu in SDM there appears to be a number of "unix" tar files on the disk ... how does one know what files are required?
Thank-you in advance for any help
Dynamic WAN ... Static P2P LAN ... Static WLAN (HIDDEN SSID, WPA PSK, MAC FILTERED) ... NO DMZ ... NO DHCP ... one Router ... 2 switches ... 1 Static Access Point
Using SDM express and SDM Configuration software I was able to get a simple WAN and LAN connection. However after presumably enabling the Firewall and NAT the grc.com security tools shows most of the LAN ports are wide open and the WAN is replying to pings??? I see there is a Commandline FAQ that addresses the Ports but is there a SDM solution?
Would it be correct to assume that these products are not configured with any default set of rules for NAT and Firewall? ie That all ports must be blocked by user defined rules? If so is there somewhere I can download the most common set of internet rules for this Router?
After some trial and error I was able to configure a WPA link with help from Cisco's online documentation ... this link shows up on my Laptop as an encrypted link but it won't connect so not sure if its because I am not using Cisco's Laptop Network Config Software to reconfigure my Intel/ProSet card
or
Is there some documentation that explains the concept of having a VLAN attached to the WLAN? Why are they using a TKIP-WEP-128 setting for a WPA configuration? ... the documentation also specified using an IP of 10.1.6.1/16 for the ROUTER VLAN ip address ... the SDM software doesn't appear to accept any combination of IP/Mask in the VLAN setting ... I finally used a Bridge VLAN to configure the WLAN because SDM kept giving me an IP and Mask error for a ROUTER VLAN. Perhaps the bridge configuration is why the WLAN is not connecting?
I was able to set up a serial Consol and attempted to do a:
show running-config ... this fails ... a show ? reveals that running-config is not in the list of available subcommands?
I noticed that the majority of postings here provide a listing of the router configs ... is show running-config used to make these if so how do I access this command?
The SDM install process inferred I could install SDM on the Router but the FLASH space only has 2M free space out of 11M basically stating there was not enough room on the flash disk ... from the File menu in SDM there appears to be a number of "unix" tar files on the disk ... how does one know what files are required?
Thank-you in advance for any help