{"id":97,"date":"2005-09-18T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T04:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=97"},"modified":"2007-10-09T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T23:02:59","slug":"double-routing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/09\/double-routing\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Routing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like prob\u00adably every oth\u00ader com\u00adputer geek out there, I do a cer\u00adtain amount of help\u00ading friends set up their home sys\u00adtems. This par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar friend knows noth\u00ading about net\u00adworks and fire\u00adwalls and the like, and just wanted some\u00adthing secure that would allow her to have a reas\u00adon\u00adably safe Win\u00addows box and the daugh\u00adter to have a reas\u00adon\u00adably safe and vir\u00adus-free Win\u00addows laptop. The easy bits were installing the spy\u00adware detect\u00adors (Ad-Aware<\/a> and Spy\u00adbot S&<\/span>D<\/a>) and the vir\u00adus checker\/utilities (Norton Sys\u00adtem\u00adWorks<\/a>); the tough bit was get\u00adting the routers to work.<\/p>\n

The sys\u00adtem that made most sense was to feed the DSL<\/span> into a wired eth\u00ader\u00adnet router with a built-in fire\u00adwall (the D\u2011Link DI-604<\/span><\/a> has a reas\u00adon\u00adable price point and an integ\u00adrated fire\u00adwall) and then set up a wire\u00adless point for the daugh\u00adter\u00ad\u2019s laptop. So my friend got a Link\u00adsys<\/a> wire\u00adless router (no fire\u00adwall). We have this sys\u00adtem at home, though with dif\u00adfer\u00adent hard\u00adware (Linux fire\u00adwall + Air\u00adport wire\u00adless) and it works just fine. So I was\u00adn\u2019t expect\u00ading any oddit\u00adies. I found the sup\u00adport page on the Link\u00adsys site that said to turn off the DHCP<\/span> serv\u00ader on the wire\u00adless router, and to give it an IP<\/span> address that fit\u00adted in with the IP<\/span> setup of the wired router. That was easy enough to do. But some\u00adhow the laptop just nev\u00ader man\u00adaged to sync up.<\/p>\n

Ah, how good it was that I allowed more time than I expec\u00adted to need to set it up! My basic idea was that eth\u00ader\u00adnet comes out of the DSL<\/span> mode, goes into the wired router in the uplink sock\u00adet, then a cable comes out of the wired router and goes into the uplink sock\u00adet of the wire\u00adless router. Still seems logic\u00adal to me, but in this case my logic was com\u00adpletely wrong. For\u00adtu\u00adnately Link\u00adsys has live chat to tech sup\u00adport that works on a Sat\u00adurday (good move, people!) and Mel\u00adrose did\u00adn\u2019t need very long to fig\u00adure out the prob\u00adlem and tell me to put the cable com\u00ading out of the wired router into one of the 4 reg\u00adu\u00adlar sock\u00adets. This worked just fine; the laptop synced up, my friend (and her daugh\u00adter) are happy and think I know exactly what I\u2019m doing, while I\u2019m still slightly baffled and won\u00adder\u00ading what\u2019s wrong with my simple hose-pipe ana\u00adlogy of inter\u00adnet con\u00adnec\u00adtions. Still, I now know empir\u00adic\u00adally what to do, so that\u2019s the import\u00adant thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like prob\u00adably every oth\u00ader com\u00adputer geek out there, I do a cer\u00adtain amount of help\u00ading friends set up their home sys\u00adtems. This par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar friend knows noth\u00ading about net\u00adworks and fire\u00adwalls and the like, and just wanted some\u00adthing secure that would allow her to have a reas\u00adon\u00adably safe Win\u00addows box and the daugh\u00adter to have a \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cDouble Routing\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}