Topic: How to access router

[laurie_lewis]

I have SME setup in server/gateway mode.  SME server has two network cards attached.  eth0 - local network  eth1 goes to router/firewall/internet.   The router is configurable via a web browser.  The router has DHCP activated and is giving eth1 an address to connect to.

I have not monitor etc attached to my SME box and no way I can configure the router.  What I would like to be able to do is access the router from the network but I have no idea on how to do this.

Help much appreciated.

Laurie

[duncan]

Perhaps http://routeripaddress

[laurie_lewis]

This will probably sound stupid but I have no idea what that address is anymore.

I went to Gibson Research and found out the address that the router is reported to be at.  Tried that ip address but no response.

How can I find out what ip address eth1 has been given.

laurie

[duncan]

The router will have an external and internal address. Access the internal one.

[pfloor]

Go to the server manager (http://servername/server-manager) and click review configuration.

This will show internal and external ip's and you can probably figure out the router's ip from there.

If the external nic on your server is lets say 192.168.0.X then the router is probably 192.168.0.1 (probably being the key word here).

Good Luck,

Paul

[MSmith]

The SME server will be your LAN's default gateway ... this can be ascertained from the properties of a connection on the LAN.  On a Windows 98 machine, "winipcfg" is probably easiest; for 2K or XP, "ipconfig /all" at a command prompt.  If you need something more than the browser-based server manager, use something like PuTTY to that gateway address to get a shell.

[laurie_lewis]

Thanks for the responses.  I have identified the ip address of the router (I think)from the configuration page.  I can still not connect though.  

I am dealing here with 3 subnets - please excuse incorrect terminology.  My internal network 192.169 xxx.AAA.  This runs off eth0 for SME.

My internet access router 192.168.yyy.1.  This runs between the SME server and the router.  It uses eth1 at 192.168.yyy.2 to connect to the sme server.

The last one is the router to the outside world running 219.???.???.???.  

In each case there is software to hand on requests from one subnet to the next.  The server is handling all requests to the internet.  If I type in http://192.168.yyy.1 it will not find 192.168.xxx.AAA because it is outside the subnet I am currently in.  Don't I need to put something in place so that it knows to route this information to the other subnet and also to handle any responses it gets?

Typing in the ip address of a different subnet does not work.

Laurie

[duncan]

Something like this?

Internet 219.???.???.???.
Router
Internal 192.168.1.1
|
Eth1 192.168.1.2
SMEServer
Eth0 192.168.0.1
|
Lan 192.168.0.2-254

192.168.0.1 is the Lan gateway and DNS server.

[laurie_lewis]

A diagram is very good way to show.  Will remember.

I pulled the router out and put it on another computer to see what the settings were.  Once I got the right IP address what was suggested worked.  I had moved the address of the default for security reasons but forgot.

Sorry for the inconveniece people but thanks for the help.

Laurie