[Cialug] Firewall question

[Tom Sellers]

As far as I know it operates as a router.  The device is a WRK54G wireless
router.

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:45 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That would depend one whether he's doing:
>
> internet <--> modem <--> firewall <--> ap <--> all your clients
>
> or
>
> internet <--> modem <--> firewall <--> wireless router <--> all your
> clients
>
> Tom, do you know if your AP is in Access Point mode, or Router mode?
>
> -dc
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Sean Flattery <sean.r.flattery at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Which system is your DHCP server, and what default route is it telling to
> > DHCP clients?  Make sure you don't have both your firewall and wireless
> > router handing out DHCP.
> >
> > ========================================
> >
> > *Tom Sellers*
> >     tsellers2009 at gmail.com
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> >     *Tue Mar  7 13:36:49 CST 2017*
> > ----------------
> >
> > I will try to get more detailed later (busy today) but the traceroute
> > command comes back with two lines.  both reference the base IP of the
> > router which is 192.168.9.1.  I agree that the problem is with not being
> > able to get to the internal firewall side which is 192.168.9.254 fixed
> IP.
> > If I am logged into the firewall machine I can ping by IP or name.
> >
> > ie: ping 8.8.8.8 with a valid response  (also)
> >      ping www.google.com resolves and .properly as well.
> >
> > I can ssh to the firewall at 192.168.9.254 without any issue and perform
> > the above commands without issue.
> >
> > >*From the local machine terminal window both commands fail.
> > *
> > Right now the wireless access point does not have an internet connection.
> > Just trying to route through the firewall to the existing network which
> > works fine.  When I tried to connect this wireless device to my cable
> modem
> > directly I crashed the whole network.  Firewall did not work.
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