P3 Router - Ipcop

HI,
I am thinking of starting a new project and am looking for some inside info.
I want to use my old P3 as a router with Ipcop and use 2 old Linksys routers as switches
Example: Internet to Modem/// Modem to P3 ipcop////P3 to router one (4 port wire)//// Router one to pc's
and
P3 ipcop to router two(4 port wire and wireless- G)
from hear I need the wire port and wireless to work so one pc can connect wireless and one through normal LAN port

Now for Router one(4 port wire) all i need to do is give it a new IP like 192.168.1.2 (or similar) and disable DHCP

For router two(4 port wire and wireless-G) do I follow the same steps so that both wire and wireless WORK or is their more to it for router two

I know their are other ways of doing this but since i all ready have everything needed for this set up this is how i want to do it

 

I use IPcop and it rocks. Modem to red(external) NIC - green(internal) NIC to switch. Then you can connect your wireless access point to your switch. Its very simple to set up.
All your services, DHCP, DynDNS, and whatever else you want is all done by IPcop. I use just about everything it has. time server, proxy, dns, dhcp, ids. its great..

Got to get out of the habit of calling those home routers, routers though. You wont be using the routing on those, just the switch ports and the wireless access point.

 

ok thx for the info
ya I was just going to say switch and accesses point but I just wanted to be clear on what I was working with

 

Right on. Just gets confusing sometimes not knowing if a person is trying to use the router port instead of the switch ports and whatnot.

If you need help with setup of ipcop, i can try to help. if you havent already been through it, they made it very easy to install and use. The gui is awesome.

 

And to take this a step further, would you please explain how to disable DHCP and establish a new admin IP for the router after you get IPCop installed. This is where I'm having trouble and have to use an unmanaged switch until I can figure out how to get into my router and tell it to stop DHCP and to let me access its controls on 192.168.1.2.

Thanks,
JR

 

What do you mean? IPcop is a router. It handles everything, so you dont need to use your old router anymore.

 

I'm sorry... sometimes I get a head of myself and I'm not 100% geek (obviously since I'm asking questions)

I want to use my old router as a switch, or hub or whatever you would call/consider it - I'm not even sure if that's important. I want to do this for two reasons. First, I have two wired PCs in my home network and secondly, my old router is also a wireless router and I want the router/hub/switch or whatnot to serve as the funnel to IPCop.

Because I don't want to try and figure out which nic is which I want to keep the configuration of IPCop to just red and green. I tired red, green and blue a long time ago and nearly ended up in the crazy ward trying to figure out which nic was getting assigned to what during the install. I also have reason to believe that putting wireless access on my green network is safe or at least safe'ish considering where my home is located.

Thanks!

 

ooh, i should have realized what you were asking. my bad.
First thing you could do is reset your old router back to factory defaults by pressing the little button with a pen or something. Hold that in for 10 or 20 seconds to do that.
Then figure out what the default ip for the router console is. id google your routers make and model to find that out. Then you can go into the console and just turn dhcp off.

then once you figure out what default ip settings, give your computer a static ip that corresponds to the ip of the router. like if the routers ip is 192.168.0.1, give your computer 192.168.0.5 or something. directly connect your computer to the router switch ports and type the 192.168.0.1(or whatever it is) into your browser.

make sense at all?

 

Yep! Thanks.

I also found this:
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/965
which is exactly what I was trying to find info on. Too bad it took me a few days, however, a few days spent is well worth it!