Any smart people out there know how to configure a router?

[Gremlin]

mmm bugger... he tells you something, it doesn't pan out... and he won't take it back?

post up details of the second device (be it modem/router/both)...

[The Lone Rider]

mmm bugger... he tells you something, it doesn't pan out... and he won't take it back?

post up details of the second device (be it modem/router/both)...

Thanks, I'll get her to do that when she gets home from work tonight.

[geek]

Asus RX3041

thanks

[devnull]

yes.

a lesson in equal cost multi path routing anyone?

Bleh! Forget the easy stuff... how about MPLS and fast reroute behaviour?

[Gremlin]

hmmm ok, not familiar with that device, so can only offer a few generic things.

Power it up, plug it into the modem. Make sure the modem is acting as a dhcp server. From the address the address range the modem is handing out, you should be able to approximate its address. Plug your pc into the Asus, see if you can access it.

Then run basics like a tracert/ping to something outside, see if it works. Try also turning off all firewalls (on pc and device) and see if its affecting anything. Test the basic connectivity, then you move onto devices blocking packets, etc.

[devnull]

Without knowing more about this 4-port device, it's kind of hard to give any useful info. What model is the router? The DSL router will do DHCP, but if you put a second router behind it, it either needs to be configured as a bridge, or you get it to take over address allocation, etc for the PC's and configure a static link to the DSL router...

[The Lone Rider]

As you can see, the claim "Plug it in this way........, and it will work right away" was a rather bloated and false explanation.