Routing traffic over existing network

[chicagophoneman]

Installing IP office Small office edition (V2.1). Customer currently has a linksys router to route traffic through a RCA cable modem. As I belive I can take a port from the linksys LAN into the WAN port of the IP office and then create a route statement of:

Ip Route <blank>
Mask <blank>
Gateway - 192.168.1.1 (Linksys gateway)
destination Lan1

Is this right? just seems easier than I thought.
Then this should allow users on the IP office LAN to route to the internet and PCs and a server on the linksys router.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time, Kevin

 

[sizbut]

Not working from experience here but I thought the WAN port of the Small Office was treated as LAN2 in the software.

The default route you propose above would work for the Linksys connected to any of the 4 LAN ports.

The advantage of the WAN being treated as LAN2 by the Small Office is that you can also apply an IP Office firewall to traffic from between LAN1/LAN2.

 

[chicagophoneman]

Thank you i will give this a try and post my results.

 

[Morrack]

sizbut you are correct, it is LAN2. Chicagophoneman just needs to change LAN1 to LAN2 in his proposed setup listed above, and it will work fine.

Peter

 

[chicagophoneman]

Thanks for the input. I tried as LAN2 and its still not working. For now i just changed the address of LAN1 and turned off DHCP I get addresses from the linksys and can route traffic. Thanks again.

 

[Morrack]

That means you have a port from the linksys connected to the 4 port LAN side, not the 1 port WAN on the small office.

If it is connected to the WAN port, using the default route from above but with LAN2, you should be good as long as you configure LAN2 with either a static address in the 192.168.1.x subnet, or turn DHCP on on LAN2. Also you need to make sure LAN1 is in a DIFFERENT subnet - ie set the LAN1 address as something like 192.168.2.1

Oh yeah - add one more route when configured as above:

IP: 192.168.2.0
SM: 255.255.255.0
GW: <blank>
Dest: LAN1


If the above setup does not work right away, try connecting a PC to the LINKSYS and ping, then run manager pointed at, 192.168.1.<whatever was assigned to LAN2>

Peter