Cable Modem - TZ 170 Firewall - Netgear Wireless Router

[dizydiz]

Hi,

I am having a bit of difficulty tring to do a network that has a firewall hardware in it. I have a cable modem hooked up to a SonicWall TZ170 (192.168.0.1) in the wan port. Off of that I have a NetGear wireless router (192.168.10.1), I know it will only act as a wireless access point now. I can hit the internte if I am plugged up directly to the Sonic Wall Firewall but I can't get on the internet if I am plugged (into the OPT Port), or on wireless, to the Netgear wirelss router. I need some help on what the IP's should be and where they should be programmed on wich device. Any help?



Jess
dizydiz@gmail.com

[YeOldeStonecat]

You should be able to set the WAN port of your Netgear to "Obtain Auto"..just like if it were on cable internet. However..you're double-NATing that way...which IMO I never want to do, what I'd prefer is to setup the Nutgear as a wireless access point instead of a router. Disable DHCP on it..make it's LAN IP something like 192.168.0.245...and uplink it to your Sonicwall using a LAN port. You won't use the WAN port of the Netgear.