Cisco 2514 Router with Motorola Surfboard Cable Modem

Forgot a line:

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ethernet0

Or if you know the next hop router at your ISP:

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 68.x.x.1  <---use correct IP address

Hi JFrederick29,

Really appreciate your help here mate.
Can you please just clarify a few things for me.

This is my setup at the moment.
   
          CAT5 Lead
PC------------------------Motorola Cable Modem-------------------Wall Socket

With the router included, would it look like the following?

           CAT5 Lead
PC-----------------------AUX1 of Router

Modem------------------AUX2 of Router

Of the above, which is Ethernet0 and Ethernet1 as you explain?

The IP Address information I have been given from my provider is as follows:

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:



        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : vic.assr.net.au

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0B-DB-2D-53-EG

        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 138.217.162.12

        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.252.0

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 138.217.160.1

        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.18.17.80

        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 61.9.128.14

                                            61.9.192.15
                                            61.9.128.15


I just need a bit of help in physically setting up the connections between the router, the modem and the PC, and then determining from what you say what ethernet interfaces belong to what.
I really appreciate your help JFrederick29.

Simon

AUI1 would be Ethernet0 and AUI2 would be Ethernet1.

Plug the CAT5 cable from the cable modem (that is currently going into your PC) into the tranceiver connected to AUI1.  Then if you want to connect your PC directly to the router, you'll need a crossover cable (straight through won't work) from your PC into the tranceiver connected to AUI2.  Alternatively, you can use a hub/switch in between your PC and the routers AUI2 tranceiver, you could use straight through cables in this case.

You are receiving an IP address from your provider via DHCP so use the "ip address dhcp" command as shown in the config I posted.

Hi JFrederick29,

Mate thank you so much.

Just one more thing and the points are yours (they are anyway!).

Previously without the router, I could control cable modem access to the Internet through cable modem software on my PC.
Now that the modem is not connected directly to the PCs NIC, but to an Ethernet port on the router, to stop Internet activity, do I have to shut down the interface each time on the router then bring it back up again to get Internet connectivity?
Also, as the internal network will be something like 192.168.x.x, will this mean I have to statically assign an IP address to my PC's network card and also the ethernet port on the router?

Many thanks mate.

Simon

You can shut down the interface connected to the cable modem and that will block the Internet from your entire internal network.  If you only have one PC, you could disable your "Local Area Connection" in Windows and that would stop the Internet from hitting your PC but still traversing the router.

For the router's internal interface, yes, you need to statically assign it an IP address using the "ip address <address> <mask>" interface configuration command.  For the PC, two ways, you can statically assign an IP address on the PC which is easiest if you only have the one PC.  If you have a good number of PC's you could setup the DHCP server on the router to provide addresses to the internal PC's.  

JFrederick29,

Youre a champion!

Thanks so much for all your great help.

Appreciate your expertise!!

Simon

You're welcome!