IP Setup on WireII

[Paulk]

Hi all,

Perhaps someone can help me with this.

Have just signed up with BT business Broadband and have 5 Static IPs.

Every time i speak to BT i get more and more confused....

Here is our setup, (and its not complicated)

Router

Hardware Firewall (Watchguard)

Server (SBS 2003)

The watchguard firewall handles all 1-1 nat translations as well as all firewall functions and also VPNs.

The server handles Exchange and DHCP.

basically i just need the router to pass through all traffic bound to my assigned IPs.

The Router does not need to act as a Firewall, or as a DHCP server or anything else no Port forwarding or content filtering nothing,  Just do its job as a router. 

can someone help a little please, or is a 3rd party netgear device a better option

kr

Paul

[spank]

Hi there,

To do what your asking: go to the router gui via 192.168.1.254, click on settings > lan and private network, you can disable DHCP in here by unticking the box.  Click address allocation from the menu at the top now and locate your firewall, if you choose 'disable' from the firewall drop down this will allow all traffic to your watchguard. 

Thanks

[Stingwray]

Hi

Did that work? We have the same situation, but when we tried as the watchguard only has one MAC address per interface the BT 2Wire Router would only put traffic through to the IP address assigned to the watchguard.

Initially to get round this, we set up the router as just an ADSL modem, then set the watchguard to act as a router using PPOE as the connection to the BT router. This worked, however we had issues with email as they appeared to be coming from the external dynamic address of the BT router, so a lot of mail was getting rejected as Spam.

To get it working how we wanted, we ditched the BT router, & used a Zyxel P-660R.

We have previously set up the watchguard with Draytek routers. I am not sure if you can do it with Netgear routers.

[udc-ltd]

Hi Paul,

Did you ever get this working? I have almost exactly the same setup as you described.

We have just upgraded to ADSL2+ and I'm having a hell of a time configuring the 2Wire/BT Business Hub supplied to work properly. If so could you point me in the right direction?

Our old Efficient Networks router supplied by BT just supplied our static IPs 217.xxx.xxx.xxx/19 so that we could route traffic directly by plugging it into the Watchguard. I could ping all IP addresses and reach the web server from the outside world. Now none of that works.

Many thanks,

Matt

[a-hill]

The 2Wire router won't allow all IP's to be assigned to a single device, it only supports 1 IP per 1 MAC address and you'll find assigning all to 1 NIC won't work and only 1 IP will work at any one time.

A router that we no longer supply but do still support is the Voyager 220v, that will allow you to assign all IP's to your firewall and can be set to allow all traffic through unrestricted. If you can get hold of this router and call the helpdesk we will help you configure this. The drawback with the Voyager 220v is that it only has 1 ethernet port and no wireless.

Alternatively the only other option I can see is obtaining your own 3rd party router that will support the setup that you require.