SMC wireless router behind a Linksys wired LAN

I have a successful wired network using a Linksys router.
I want to add a wireless access point to the network and have a SMC 7004VWBR
router.
As the Linksys router's default IP address is 192.168.1.1 and am using DHCP,
I would have thought I should change the default IP address of the SMC
router from 192.168.2.1 to something like 192.168.1.8
Is this correct and if so, how do I do that? It's easy to change the IP
address of a Linksys router but I haven't been able to do so on the SMC.
Also the Linksys setup allows you to change it's default settings to act as
a router only and not as a gateway, which is what I want to do on the SMC,
but their setup pages have no similar provision.


Any help out there? 1 1/2 hours on the phone with SMC help desk in India
provided no help.

Len West wrote:

> I have a successful wired network using a Linksys router.
> I want to add a wireless access point to the network and have a SMC 7004VWBR
> router.
> As the Linksys router's default IP address is 192.168.1.1 and am using DHCP,
> I would have thought I should change the default IP address of the SMC
> router from 192.168.2.1 to something like 192.168.1.8
> Is this correct and if so, how do I do that? It's easy to change the IP
> address of a Linksys router but I haven't been able to do so on the SMC.
> Also the Linksys setup allows you to change it's default settings to act as
> a router only and not as a gateway, which is what I want to do on the SMC,
> but their setup pages have no similar provision.
>
>
> Any help out there? 1 1/2 hours on the phone with SMC help desk in India
> provided no help.
>
>
>
On my SMC router, which is a wired router, you go to the Setup screen,
then the LAN screen and there is a place there to change the IP address
of the router.

Len West <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have a successful wired network using a Linksys router.
> I want to add a wireless access point to the network and have a SMC 7004VWBR
> router.

I would use a crossed cable from one of the ports on the Linksys to one of
the LAN ports on the SMC, and leave the SMC-WAN port empty.

This way, the wireless clients, and the wired clients attached to the SMC
will all be on the subnet and using the DHCP addresses from the Linksys.

Of course, you'll lose the firewall of the SMC, which is superior to that
(non-existent) on the Linksys low end routers.

> As the Linksys router's default IP address is 192.168.1.1 and am using DHCP,
> I would have thought I should change the default IP address of the SMC
> router from 192.168.2.1 to something like 192.168.1.8

Anything outside the range being issued by the Linksys.
It can be on something completely foreign to the subnet used by other
ports on the Linksys, and it will still be reachable because the Linksys
is the router and default gateway for the client PCs.


> Is this correct and if so, how do I do that? It's easy to change the IP
> address of a Linksys router but I haven't been able to do so on the SMC.
> Also the Linksys setup allows you to change it's default settings to act as
> a router only and not as a gateway, which is what I want to do on the SMC,
> but their setup pages have no similar provision.

The opening screen of the SMC configuration can be ignored. All you want
there is "Advanced". On install, I go to Advanced, and start at the top,
clicking my way down through each of the pages on the left hand side.

The IP address of the SMC admin interface is set under "LAN".

> Any help out there? 1 1/2 hours on the phone with SMC help desk in India
> provided no help.

The guys I talked to were in Singapore.

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