[Discussion] Router installation

[Bob]

** Reply to message from "Joyce E. Clarke" <crs at novuscom.net> on Thu, 7 Jan
2010 23:09:59 -0800

> > If you do not use DHCP you will need to use the TCP/IP settings to change the
> > computer address to 192.168.0.xx.  Then you can use your browser to change its
> > address.
> 
> Well, that does make sense and I did think of that;
> probably better to mess this one up than the current
> firewall/router machine.

Yes, I would leave most of the current configuration as is.  It is a lot easier
change the new hardware to fit into your current system.


> Not having the TCP/IP GUI, please confirm that SETUP.CMD
> will become:
> 
> > ifconfig lan0 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 metric 1 mtu 1500
> > REM ifconfig lan1
> > REM ifconfig lan2
> > REM ifconfig lan3
> > REM ifconfig lan4
> > REM ifconfig lan5
> > REM ifconfig lan6
> > REM ifconfig lan7
> > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> > REM route add default 192.168.1.1 -hopcount 1
> > ipgate off

That looks good to me.

Backup any file before you change it so you can recover from any problem, it
makes life much simpler when something goes wrong.

-- 
Robert Blair