Connect a wireless router to a sonicwall firewall

Disconnect your wirless router and take it out the equation. Make sure ALL is working well. Now connect a LAN port on the wireless router to a LAN port on your network. Log into the wireless router and to its main settings. Do two things:

1. Turn DHCP OFF.
2. Give the router a Static IP address on the internal network.

Restart the wireless router and connect up. It should work fine.

... Thinkpads_User

Do these steps.

Disconnect  Asus Rt-N66u wireless router from your cable modem. Reconfigure the Asus Rt-N66u wireless router with gateway as  Sonicwall TZ 215 and primary DNS is your internal DNS server and secondary DNS is your  Sonicwall TZ 215.  And connect the  Asus Rt-N66u wireless router to your internal  LAN switch. check the connectivity with wireless device.

Thank you.

Hi  leninraghavan

when you say reconfigure the Asus with gateway, do you mean reconfigure the WAN part of the wireless or the LAN? I couldn't find where to insert gateway info on the LAN part.  On the WAN part if I set it as a static IP I can insert the info.  So when you say connect wireless to internal switch, is it the WAN port of the wirless being connected to my internal LAN switch?
Thanks

John

If you hook up as per my first post, the gateway will be the same for both routers. It will be automatic. Just give the wireless router a static IP on your main network. I have this running here in my home office the same way and it works just fine.

.... Thinkpads_User

You have to setup static IP in WAN settings ( same IP range in your local LAN). same way I mentioned in the above post. You have to enable DHCP in the Asus Rt-N66u, with different different IP address range ( not same as your local LAN IP). I mean If your existing local LAN IP is 192.168.1.0 then you have to give DHCP range in Asus Rt-N66u is 192.168.2.0. You have to connect the cable from local switch to WAN port of Asus Rt-N66u . Then connect  devices through wireless not through the LAN port in the Asus Rt-N66u . Because you are using router for connecting to the network. instead of using Asus Rt-N66u Router, use access point. It is more easy just plug in to the local switch, it will work perfect.

You have to enable DHCP in the Asus Rt-N66u

I do not recommend this at all. You will wind up with two DHCP servers on the same network. I suggest disabling DHCP on the wireless router to prevent conflicts. As per the very first post here, all devices on the wireless as well as the main network want to see everything.

.... Thinkpads_User

If I enable DHCP on ASUS, I will not be able to login to my Active Directory, nor see shared folders on our server!

In Asus DHCP you have to give Primery DNS address of your local DNS. and secondary as your sonicwall IP.

All working as you say!

Thank you and I was happy to help you wit this.   .... Thinkpads_User