Hope Center Tuesday September 2, 2003 Thomas Watkins

Harry Harshaw
Meeting Place: Hope Center Wood stock Georgia
Meeting time: 6:00pm to 2:00am
Hours of meeting: 5 and ½

Goal:
1. Place the SMC SMC7004FW on the Network
2. Configure the router

Notes:
Today we arrived at the Hope Center ready to install the new SMC7004FW Router.

We placed the router on the network and configured it as

SMC SMC7004FW
Barricade Plus Cable/DSL Broadband Router with VPN
WAN SIDE

WAN IP
208.57.219.54
WAN Gateway
208.57.219.1
Sub-net
255.255.255.192
DNS Servers
Primary 208.57.0.10
Secondary 208.57.0.113

Address Scheme
Total Available Usable IP addresses on network (253) 192.168.1.1 – 192.168.1.254

192.168.1.1 = Internal LAN IP

192.168.1.11 – 192.168.1.99, 88 IP addresses for statically assigned IP addresses on the
network.
192.168.1.100 – 192.168.1.199 – DHCP Range it contains 100 addresses.
192.168.1.200 – 192.168.20 Used for the 20 VPN clients the router can support.

The router seemed to go on the Network without a problem but after further
investigation, there was a problem. The router was denying access to computers after
about six attempts to access the WAN the router would seem to bottleneck the network
and not allow web pages to come up.

After an hour or so of trouble shooting the router at Linksys wireless access

point, we could not come up with a solution to this problem.
Hope Center Tuesday September 2, 2003 Thomas Watkins
Harry Harshaw
Thinking about the problem for a while together, we made the determination to
upgrade the firmware of the router to the most current version from the SMC Firmware
v2.15t2. This successfully fixed the problem and everything went fine.

At the same time, all of the router troubleshooting was happening there was
simultaneous work being done on the network upgrading the final two machines to
Windows XP. These two machines upgrades went on and came up on the network with
not to many issues the same problems happened with these as all the others.
The printer drivers where not compatible with windows XP this problem was
easily solved with going to the printer vendors web site and down loading the XP driver
and loading it.
The Anti- virus software associated with each PC was Norton/Systematic 2001.
This is not compatible with Windows XP either so each machine needed
Norton/Systematic 2003 Enterprise edition; the hope center is licensed for it and currently
has it on hand.
Overall, it was a productive night the network problem was solved and we could
move on with setting up the network with Shares and the actual IP Address scheme.