Hello, I am trying to use a Belkin F5D7230-4 router as an access point. I have a D-Link DI-524 Wireless-G router as my main wireless router. I want to connect the Belkin router wireless-ly to the D-Link router so that the connection looks like this:
Cable Modem DI-524 Belkin F5D7230-4 -> Wired comps
So, basically, I want to connect a few wired devices to the Belkin F5D7230-4 router. The DI router has a MAC address filtering, and I have put in the WAN MAC address of Belkin into it (I have also tried with WLAN/LAN MAC address of the Belkin router). Next I have followed the directions in this page:
This is all what I have done:
- I have put the WAN MAC address of Belkin into DI-524. I have also assigned a static address of 192.168.0.190 to the Belkin MAC in DI-524. The DI-524 is set up to distribute IPs from
192.168.0.100-192.168.0.199 in DHCP. The remaining are for Belkin:
- In Belkin, I have matched the SSID, channel and security (actually no security right now since I use MAC filtering) with those of DI-524.
- Next I clicked on 'LAN Settings' and assigned 192.168.0.190 as the IP Address, and 255.255.255.0 as the Subnet Mask. Also I set the DHCP server as ON and set the IP pool from 192.168.0.200-250.
- In 'Connection Type', I have left it to 'Dynamic'. (I played with 'Static' as well, with setting the same IP address, 192.168.0.190 as the WAN and setting up 192.168.0.1 as the gateway - no use).
- In 'DNS', I am using '192.168.0.1' as the DNS address.
- In 'Channel and SSID', I have matched the channel and SSID. I have left the 'Broadcast SSID' to OFF, Protedted Mode to 'OFF' and 802.11e QoS to 'OFF'.
- Disabled security.
That's pretty much it. In the Belkin router front page, it says, in 'Features': NAT enabled, Firewall Settings Enabled, Security Disabled.
I am sure this configuration must have been done by somebody. I have read quite a few success stories similar to this, but haven't this this configuration. Can anyone help me out with what I am missing?
Thanks.