DIY 2 routers w/o cascading

Question

Hi, just wanted to share my exprience with adding a linksys wireless router wrt54gs v.6 to my existing network which already has a router on it. You might ask why did you add another router and the answer is simple it was cheaper to get then the standard WAP by about $30 US dollars "they were running a special".
I currently have this setup
Wall to cable modem
Cable modem to Netgear router w/firewall & vpn
Netgear "last port" to linksys port 4
computers connected to netgear
servers, printers & wireless connected to linksys
all on the same ip scheme.
My network uses a netgear as the dhcp and everything on the linksys looks to it for dhcp.
When I first got the linksys I tried to follow the instructions and cascade the 2 routers then came to find out that by doing that everything on the Netgear would not talk to the computers on the linsys. So its easy to say that is not what I was looking for. This is what I did
Attached linksys router to my computer and started it up went into the configuration "refer to your documentation" SAVE YOUR SETTINGS AFTER EACH CHANGE!
Turn off dhcp "very important" SAVE
Assign a static ip address to your router from your current network. Example...Main router is 192.168.0.1 so make your linksys 192.168.0.5 SAVE
Go to setup and advanced routing and select the drop down box that says Gateway and switch it to router. Was the top selection on my menu. SAVE
Reattach your computer to your existing network and cycle the power or just pull a new ip address.
Go into your current network router/gateway which is curretnly assigningyour IP address and tell it to start at giving out address at 192.168.0.50. By doing this you have about 49 static ip's to use for servers, wap's & printers.
Plug in your Linksys home router into the network there are a few ways can do this.
Make a crossover cable or buy one and plug it into your main router "ex port 4" then take the cable and plug it into the linksys router "ex port 4" DO NOT CONNECT TO THE DESIGNATED INTERNET PORT
If your current router has a uplink port "check your documentation" you can use a standard ethernet cable and plug into that and then plug into your linksys router. DO NOT CONNECT TO THE DESIGNATED INTERNET PORT
Message Edited by Konoko on 10-29-200611:13 AM

Answer 1

actually, you can still do that
1) add static routes for all your vpn servers ip addresses, e.g, route add europe.myvpn.com gw <my isp's default gateway> dev <my device>
for ease of use, add all your routes to a bash script, and then run it from rc.local
2) before connecting to the vpn, you need to disable your default route through eth0/etc , but doing so, you will not be able to connect at all as your myCon config file uses a dns name in the pty parameter instead of the vpn servers ip address, either change it in the config file, or add all those dns-ip mappings to /etc/hosts
3) create multiple ppp config files with different pty parameters, and you can then execute them using a normal bash script containing, pon myEuropeVPN, pon myAsiaVPN, etc.
Last edited by Sin.citadel (2010-06-10 18:14:23)