FiOS/networking question

[Bruce Dawson]

jsf wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I have FiOS coming to the house.. it is brought into the basement of
> my house... I've had it for over a year now and what I did was this:
> 
> I completely bypassed the D-Link non-wifi router they supplied and
> instead took the Cat5E cable coming out of the FiOS box in my basement
> and plugged that into a RJ45 jack in my basement wall.  I have cat5E
> running from that jack up to a jack inside a cabinet in my kitchen.  I
> then use a short length of Cat5E cable running from that jack to the
> uplink jack on my Linksys WRT54G Wifi router which is stuck to the
> wall in my hallway on the other side of that kitchen cabinet.
> 
> So, the Linksys connects to Verizon over PPPoE and our various laptops
> in the house use their wifi cards to pickup DHCP addresses from the
> Linksys.
> 
> I maintain a DSL line from Speakeasy with a single static IP address.
> I have one linux box conencted to that DSL modem and run my apache,
> Postfix, etc. off of that for all of the domains I own.
> 
> This has been fine for as long as my employer has been willing to pick
> up the $52.13 for the Speakeasy account.
> 
> I will likely be changing employers soon and the new employer is
> unlikely to be willing to pick up this expense.
> 
> On Friday I signed up for a $20/month MediaTemple GridServer acct.  I
> have pointed DNS for most of my domains to the Media Temple setup and
> moved all of the websites there.. it was all pretty painless.
> 
> Before I retire my Speakeasy DSL I am trying to figure out how to do
> the following:
> 
> 1) connect the FiOS uplink to the D-Link non-wifi router
> 
> 2) plug the two computers I have into the basement directly into the
> D-Link router and have them connect either via DHCP or PPoE to the
> FiOS account. (one of them is currently plugged into the Speakeasy DSL
> and the other picks up a DHCP addy via the Linksys Wifi).
> 
> 3) get the Linksys WRT54G connected to the D-Link via my wiring in the
> walls and somehow have IT get assigned an address and then have our
> laptops pick up an address via DHCP (I guess) from the WRT54G.
> 
> I'm not sure what configuration might be needed on the D-Link to make
> this work, nor how to do the configuration.
> 
> I'm also not sure how to tell a SuSE 9 box how to pick up an addy via
> PPPoE.
> 
> Any assistance with figuring out how to get to the new config. so
> everything works.. the two workstations downstairs and the WiFI router
> upstairs on JUST the FiOS would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> TIA,

Assuming the Dlink has a 4 port switch on it...

Plug the FiOS box into the Dlink's WAN socket. Plug the 2 basement
computers and the connection to the basement wall into the DLINK.

Reconfigure the Linksys WRT54G to be an access point.

The DLINK will be the DHCP server for everything.

If the DLINK doesn't have a 4 port switch on it...

Replace it with a router that does. If you don't want to buy another
Linksys WRT, then move the one you have to the basement, and plug your
FiOS box into its WAN socket, and the basement computers into the switch.

Your reception upstairs will probably be lousy, so buy a high-gain
antenna set for it. With any luck, the bigger antennas will improve
reception (for both you and your neighborhood).

--Bruce