wireless "interface" to network query

A few weeks ago I bought a Belkin FD7230 wireless router... it took
a bit of getting up and running but eventually it was connecting my
adsl modem (DLink 300G+) to my network OK. Everything tickety boo.
And the laptop connected via wifi fine (belkin pcmcia card).

Then a couple of weeks ago we had a power outage and of course
everything went down, then came up. (Still saving hard for that
UPS...)

All the servers were fine. But now I couldn't get any dns
resolution... and external connections were failing (e.g. mail
wasn't being delivered via the NAT'ed firewall). The set up page of
the router appeared fine (via browser) but I couldn't see the adsl
modem any longer (via its web interface on its local IP). I power
cycled the modem, power cycled the router... no change.
Basically although the router is configured to get dns settings from
the ISP its getting nothing (moot point that its actually connecting
to anything maybe! Altjhough its external address was correct ie the
ISP allocated address). I was very very loath to "reset" everything
and strat from scratch again (and thus set up the NAT's firewall etc
etc etc)

In the end I gavce up after about 3 hours and reconnected my old
smoothwall firewall which went up immediately, connected and serverd
dns perfectly again.
(FWIW my internal dns server serves local addresses and uses the
router interface as its zone "." resolution... this was far happier
now as well).

So - forstly what has happened to my beling wifi router... why has it
just given up serving dns/connectin/whatever?

And secondly, given the no brainer success of the old smoothwall
firewallI'm considering ditiching the beling wifi router - but still
need wifi access for the laptop - so what alternatives are there/ I
ave tried to use the router as an access point but while it worked
fine as a hub in efect to cabled connections, wifi connections were
useless as the dhcp connections thus offered gace no default route to
the clients so browseing ate was impossible. (connected the wan link
to the normal hub, set up dhcp on the router etc...)
Is the belking 7330 a wireless access point instead? ie can I attack
it via ethernet to my hub (receing a dhcp address from the smoothwall
firewall/dhcp server), and then use the 7330 as a wifi hub to the
remote wireless laptop connection?

i.e. WAN - dlink 300g - smoothwall - HUB - belkin 7330 ......
(wireless) ... laptop+belkin pcmcia


cheers

ian

On 15 Nov 2004 02:25:20 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (Ian Diddams) wrote:

> I
>ave tried to use the router as an access point but while it worked
>fine as a hub in efect to cabled connections, wifi connections were
>useless as the dhcp connections thus offered gace no default route to
>the clients so browseing ate was impossible. (connected the wan link
>to the normal hub, set up dhcp on the router etc...)
>Is the belking 7330 a wireless access point instead?

The F5D7230uk4 DSL/cable gateway router has an access point mode, mine
is runing in that but it stoppped talking to me a while back so I
can't tell you the settings. DHCP is doled out by another device so I
guess I turned off the DHCP server in the Belkin - although p53 of the
manual suggests that setting it to Wireless AP mode defeats NAT and
DHCP.

The F5D7130uk is a straight access point, the F5D7330uk is
effectively a wireless to wired bridge ie it provides wirless access
for an ethernet device like an Xbox.

HTH

Phil
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Phil Thompson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message

> The F5D7230uk4 DSL/cable gateway router has an access point mode, mine
> is runing in that but it stoppped talking to me a while back so I
> can't tell you the settings. DHCP is doled out by another device so I
> guess I turned off the DHCP server in the Belkin - although p53 of the
> manual suggests that setting it to Wireless AP mode defeats NAT and
> DHCP.

s'interesting... 'cos when I tried it as a Wireless AP it did serve
dhcp - just not with any default gateway.

I'll trawl through the manual again...

> The F5D7130uk is a straight access point

OK - that's looks more like waht I need then.

many thanks Phil.

Ian

On 16 Nov 2004 01:14:11 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (Ian Diddams) wrote:

>'cos when I tried it as a Wireless AP it did serve
>dhcp - just not with any default gateway.

mine may have done as well - I may have explicitly turned it off.

Phil
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