breaking radio silence...

[kuangning]

out of pure frustration.

I own a Cisco 857W router/ADSL modem that was supposed to solve the troubles I was having with my current (crappy, ISP-provided) BritePortmodem and LinksysWRT54G v2 router combination. It may well be the answer to my prayers it was touted to be -- but if it is, you can't prove it by me. I haven't been able to configure it properly by myself. None of the SDM-included configurations truly work with my connection. I can either have DSL connectivity as indicated by the LED but be unable to communicate with the router (no WLAN/LAN function) or have LAN/WLAN function without Internet connectivity, but not both at the same time.

I found a command line walkthrough for IRB which doesn't work, (it directs me to configure an eth0 interface which doesn't exist on my router) and got some scattered advice from elsewhere which likewise did not work. To make matters worse, the Linksys router just died, so I'm currently plugged directly into the modem -- it'll do for tonight, but not indefinitely.

I'm not completely clueless -- I can follow instructions and work with the command line. But I am not a CCNA, and I haven't been able to teach myself enough to figure out what's missing and fix it. I'm more than willing to pay for help that works. Anyone familiar with this router or know someone who is?

Comments

[tangaroa.livejournal.com]

Make sure you have two interfaces and that they are configured for different netblocks. Then check the routing table to make sure it says packets destined for whatever netblocks are going through the correct interface.

[avahgdu.livejournal.com]

I'm useless here...but I miss you and love you.