Help Please - Router using Fixed WAN IP and DHCP Lan

I have 128kb/s wireless conection from cable company in Nicaragua.
Works OK with a single computer.
Linksys WRT54g v3 with latest Linksys firmware
Windows XP
Can not get wired or wireless to conection to internet through router.
Slightly modified details for privacy that I also set in the router:
Fixed IP Address 192.168.311.225
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.311.1
DNS Servers 192.168.311.1
165.98.264.162

How do I configure the LAN?
I tried DHCP completely out of WAN:
DHCP 192.168.1.100 to DHCP 192.168.1.110
WAN Light blinks occasionally on router
I can not tell if it is connected.
Lan computers pull an IP but no internet connectivity

Do I need to add DNS server info to each computers TCP?

Fixed IPs for LAN and range outside of WAN??

HELP Please

JR Tolkin wrote:
> I have 128kb/s wireless conection from cable company in Nicaragua.
> Works OK with a single computer.
> Linksys WRT54g v3 with latest Linksys firmware
> Windows XP
> Can not get wired or wireless to conection to internet through router.
> Slightly modified details for privacy that I also set in the router:

Slightly modified for what?
No one here can come at you on your LAN IP(s) even if you gave the
correct IP(s) that made some kind of sense.

If these are IP(s) the NIC on the machine has for a Static IP setup, I
don't know what you have put here?

> Fixed IP Address 192.168.311.225

Maybe 192.168.1.2

> Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0

255.255.255.0

> Default Gateway 192.168.311.1

192.168.1.1 = router's Device IP

> DNS Servers 192.168.311.1

The IP should be pointing to an IP the belongs to the ISP for its DNS
server.

> 165.98.264.162

Maybe that's an IP to the ISP's DNS server?


Well, if you have the router setup to obtain a DHCP IP from the ISP,
then you should have no problems with connecting the router to the ISP's
network. However, if the ISP uses MAC authentication and you have not
provisioned the router's MAC with the ISP, the router is not going to
have a connection to the WAN/Internet and neither will any of the
machines connected to the router will have a connection to the WAN.
>
> How do I configure the LAN?

If the router has a valid connection to the ISP, then all you do is set
the NIC on the machine to *Obtain an IP* and the machine will get an IP
from the router's DHCP server automatically with everything set
correctly and that's wired or wireless NIC.

> I tried DHCP completely out of WAN:
> DHCP 192.168.1.100 to DHCP 192.168.1.110
> WAN Light blinks occasionally on router
> I can not tell if it is connected.

You tried DHCP completely out of WAN statement up above makes no sense.
Those are LAN IP(s) you're talking about above and look to be DHCP IP(s)
from the router's DHCP server and are not WAN IP(s). So what are you
talking about here?


> Lan computers pull an IP but no internet connectivity
>

What IP(s) are you talking about? If the machines are pulling an IP that
starts with 169.xxx.xxx.xxx, then the machines are not pulling an IP
from the router that are going to allow the machines to access the
Internet. The machines are timing out trying to obtain an IP from the
DHCP server on the router and they cannot do it and the O/S is assigning
the IP to the NIC, which will allow the machines on the LAN to access
each other but none will be able to access the Internet.

> Do I need to add DNS server info to each computers TCP?

If you were trying to set the NIC's on each machine to use the router's
static IP(s) then you would need to know the ISP's DNS IP(s). If you're
setting the NIC's on the machines to use DHCP IP(s) by *Obtaining the IP
automatically* from the router's DHCP server, then you don't have to do
anything and the machines will get the IP(s) it needs from the router's
DHCP server automatically. But of course in either case, the router has
to have a valid connection to the ISP by using the ISP's static IP(s)
for the ISP which the ISP would have had to have told you what those
IP(s) were so that you could configure the router to use those IP(s) or
you configured the router to *Obtain the IP(s)* from the ISP's DHCP
server automatically. But in either case, that may depend upon you
having to have the router's MAC provisioned with the ISP so that the
router can connect to the ISP's network.

>
> Fixed IPs for LAN and range outside of WAN??

What are you talking about?

There are LAN (s) that are on the router either DHCP IP(s) issued by the
DHCP server on the router for a NIC on the computer requesting a DHCP IP
from the router or there are Static IP(s) on the router that you must
configure the NIC on the computer to use a router's Static IP and you
must also configure the DNS IP(s) the NIC must use that belong to the ISP.

Each network controlled by a router or a firewall appliance gets a WAN
IP from the ISP or a computer that has a direct connection to the
Internet gets a WAN IP from the ISP so they can access the Internet. To
put it simple for lack of better words, it's the modem that gets the WAN
IP from the ISP.

Why don't you try giving some valid information as to IP(s) that you're
seeing at the moment so someone can help you. You trying to fake them
means nothing as long as you're not giving the one valid WAN IP that the
ISP has given you. The LAN IP(s) mean nothing as everyone knows them and
they are protected in this case.

Duane

JR Tolkin wrote:
> I have 128kb/s wireless conection from cable company in Nicaragua.
> Works OK with a single computer.
> Linksys WRT54g v3 with latest Linksys firmware
> Windows XP
> Can not get wired or wireless to conection to internet through router.
> Slightly modified details for privacy that I also set in the router:
> Fixed IP Address 192.168.311.225
> Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
> Default Gateway 192.168.311.1
> DNS Servers 192.168.311.1
> 165.98.264.162

[snip]

The DNS servers should match those in the router, no? (194.168.8.100,
194.168.4.100).

On 27 Jan 2006 01:24:09 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless , "__spc__"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>
>The DNS servers should match those in the router, no? (194.168.8.100,
>194.168.4.100).

depends on your router - my router forwards DNS automatically, so my
clients all get the router's IP as their DNS.
Mark McIntyre
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THANKS all for answering even though I screwed up the explanation.
The title said "Fixed WAN IP " but I should have said WAN or ISP in the
fixed IP details.

Also I should have said LAN IP range did not include the WAN IP.

Anyhow for some reason it started working OK so THANKS again.