Need help connecting vonage router to wireless router

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Apr 04, 2005 Posts: 4

currently i have my Vonage router hooked in behind my wireless router (wrt54g) and i am getting nothing for the phone, no phone light on. I can connect to the internet. Any help on how to exactly configure this setup would be great.

Thanks

Posts: 7 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 23, 2005 Posts: 7

I'm not familiar with the wrt54g specifically, but it should have a DMZ. A DMZ lives outside your internal LAN, and firewall rules on your wireless router will not be applied to it.

Configure the wireless router to put your Vonage adapter in the DMZ. This is usually done by entering the MAC or IP address your Vonage adapter occupies.

I have a D-Link wireless router, and things work for me this way. If you are unfamiliar with a DMZ, and how it works for your specific router, check the manual or tech support page. It's fairly common practice for connecting PS2s, XBox, and the likes.

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Apr 04, 2005 Posts: 4

anyone else have any other suggestions on how to do this, i am still have problems. have both routers hooked up and i have the remote management enabled, but i am not sure what to exacty type in to access it. I know the 8080 needs to be at the end, but what do i type in before that?

Posts: 3198 · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:04 pm Post subject:

the default ip of the rt31p2 is http://192.168.15.1 (password: admin)
not sure about the wrt.
port forwarding/dmz may not be the issue. try plugging it directly into the cable modem just to see if it will work there. if the power light is blinking, leave it alone.
once you do log into the rt31p2, see what it says under Status for Line1. and just to confirm, if you bought it at a store, you did activate it at the Vonage website right (vonage.com/activate) if Vonage sent it to you, this doesn't apply.

Posts: 66 · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:40 am Post subject:

If you want the WRT to be in front of the RT than here is how you going to set it up...

WRT Setup----

Have the DHCP and NAT set on the WRT to on. Give the router a name in the advanced router area. Also tell it that it is the gateway.
Set the IP to 192.168.15.1

RT Setup-----

Have the DHCP and NAT set on the RT to OFF. Give the router a name in the advanced router area. Also tell it that it is a router. ALSO turn on RIP and set the IP to 192.168.15.2

On the RT, Set the STATIC IP to:

192.168.15.2
255.255.255.0 - Subnet Mask
192.168.15.1 - Gateway
Turn DHCP off.

Than connect a Straight thru eth cable from Port 3 to the WAN on the RT and it will work.

When you want to access the router all you have to do is type in there IP address and you can access the GUI of each router...
WRT 192.168.15.1
RT 192.168.15.2

Also you can set dyndns for each and access the remote admin from any where.

Posts: 14 · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

Here's my setup with the WRT54G -> RT31P2. Maybe give this setup a try (you just need to replace the 200 references with the default 100)

WRT54G:
Internet Connection Type: DHCP
Router IP : Local IP Address: 192.168.1.200
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP Server: Enabled
Starting IP Address: 192.168.1.201

WRT54G Apps & Gaming - Port Range Forward:
Application: Vonage
Start: 8081
End: 8081
IP Address: 252
Enable: checked
** this will allow me to access my RT31P2 (located behind my router) from remote locations

RT31P2:
(Straight through Ethernet cable from port 1 on WRT54G to Internet port on RT31P2)
Internet Connection Type: Static IP
IP address: 192.168.1.252 (this puts it outside the range of IP's that could be assigned by the WRT54G DHCP server)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.200 (LAN side IP address of WRT54G)
DNS1: information from WRT Status -Router
DNS2: information from WRT Status -Router

Router IP: Local IP Address: 192.168.1.15 (I won't be plugging anything into this router so I left this at default)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Local DHCP Server: Disabled

Administration - Management
Remote Administration: Enabled
Administration Port: 8081

Posts: 66 · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject:

I wonder if he got it working?!? Confused

Posts: 72 · Full Forum Member Joined: Mar 08, 2005 Posts: 72

Strange as this config may be, this is what I did to get phone/pc's working

I can tell you how I have my wrt54g and rt31p2 hooked up. The wrt54g is hooked to the cable modem and the rt31p2 is hooked to the wrt54g. I changed the local ip address on the rt to 192.168.1.2 so it is on same subnet as wrt54g (192.168.1.1) Set the rt for static ip address 192.168.1.10, leave subnet alone and set gateway to address of wrt54g (192.168.1.1)and turn off dhcp on the rt also. type ipconfig from dos prompt on your computer and see what dns servers are, put these in rt where it asks for dns entries. run 1 ethernet cable from wrt54g to Internet port on rt and then run another cable from any lan port on the wrt54g to any lan port on the rt. I had to connect both of these ports to get phone and pc's working.

Posts: 14 · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject:

or type: ipconfig /all to get the DNS information. I don't get all the info with a regular ipconfig.

Posts: 25 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 27, 2005 Posts: 25

thegooch49 wrote:

I'm not familiar with the wrt54g specifically, but it should have a DMZ. A DMZ lives outside your internal LAN, and firewall rules on your wireless router will not be applied to it.

Configure the wireless router to put your Vonage adapter in the DMZ. This is usually done by entering the MAC or IP address your Vonage adapter occupies.

I have a D-Link wireless router, and things work for me this way. If you are unfamiliar with a DMZ, and how it works for your specific router, check the manual or tech support page. It's fairly common practice for connecting PS2s, XBox, and the likes.

I don't see how QOS would work here. Why not have the RT in the DMZ of the P2?