Routing Statement? 2

[traycee]

Hey All!
Any tips will be appreciated.

I have an office without a server that has cable internet connectivity. The cable modem is connected to a wireless Linksys router. Basic setup. Works fine.

The state put in a Cisco router. We will connect to a program through this router and it is connected to a T1 line. I put in a switch between the Cisco and our computers. To access their program, we type an ip address into Internet Explorer and access the program.

I can get it to work, but then the internet doesn't. Or...I can get the internet to work...but can't access the program. I can toggle between the two, kind of clumsily. The switch is not connected to the Linksys router. Tried it...but it didn't work either.

I'm looking for a way or an idea that would allow the users to use the internet and when they want to go to the other site, just type in the IP address and enter that site.

Thanks

 

[franklin97355]

I would talk to the guys that are supplying the other router. They will know how to do what you want but, being the state they may refuse to tell you.

You don't need to connect to the internet to use our program so we don't care.

 

[pansophic]

Give us an idea of the IP addressing scheme. On your Linksys router you are probably running RFC 1918 addressing (192.168.x.x). Your netmask is probably a class C mask (255.255.255.0).

To understand your issues we'd also need to know the IP address (subnet only, or masked IP so that everyone and their mother isn't trying to connect to it) of the Cisco router, the IP address (similar masking) of the host that the "state" provided. Default gateway IP address. Any static routes that you have defined on your computers or the Linksys or Cisco Routers.

If I had to guess, you are having troubles because the Linksys router is your default gateway, and it knows nothing about the Cisco router. A simple static route would resolve that.


pansophic

 

[traycee]

The linksys router is 192.168.1.254
It's gateway is 255.255.255.0
Normal stuff.

Let's say the Cisco router is 192.168.1.1, the host the state provided as 10.0.0.1 the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 and the gateway is 192.168.1.2.

No static routes are defined in the Linksys.

And yep...the problem is that the Linksys router is not aware of the Cisco router and refuses to play. I've tried to separate NIC cards in one machine, single NIC cards, a switch connected to the Cisco, etc. Frustrated but continuing to try.

Thanks
tc

 

[ChrisAC]

If you can't put a route on the Linksys router then you have two options;

1. Put a default route on the Cisco router pointing at the Linksys and then point all the LAN client to the Cisco router as the default gateway.

2. Put a persistent route on all the clients pointing them to the 10.0.0.0 /24 network via the Cisco router.

route add 10.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 <Cisco_IP> -p

Chris.

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[traycee]

Thanks...I went with the persistant route on all clients and it works great! Does exactly what I needed.