Small business network help quick! ITS EASY!!

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I am looking to set up a network in my office

I need a config like this:

modem -- (firewall eventually) -- server -- router -- clients

Right now I am going to configure this using winxp but will upgrade to
Server 2003 in a few years(or the newest system then) as the company
grows.

I set up and wired everything the only problem I am having is with the
router.

I set the router on a different subnet, 192.168.20.1 than the server &
clients
192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.2-x

I disabled DHCP to allow the router to act as a switch and file sharing
and the
internet work great.

I made the internet address of the router 192.168.0.2 and
subnet mask 255.255.0.0 and gateway 192.168.0.1

However I cannot login to the router to make any changes that
I might need without resetting it and then reconfiguring it all again.


Clients are set to autoconfigure router & server are set static

What do I do to login into the router??!?

Thanks in advance.
 
I am looking to set up a network in my office

I need a config like this:

modem -- (firewall eventually) -- server -- router -- clients

Right now I am going to configure this using winxp but will upgrade to
Server 2003 in a few years(or the newest system then) as the company
grows.

I set up and wired everything the only problem I am having is with the
router.

I set the router on a different subnet, 192.168.20.1 than the server &
clients
192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.2-x

I disabled DHCP to allow the router to act as a switch and file sharing
and the
internet work great.

I made the internet address of the router 192.168.0.2 and
subnet mask 255.255.0.0 and gateway 192.168.0.1

However I cannot login to the router to make any changes that
I might need without resetting it and then reconfiguring it all again.


Clients are set to autoconfigure router & server are set static

What do I do to login into the router??!?
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To be useful, you put the router LAN on the same subnet as the clients. Routers
route traffic from one subnet to another, and the router port has to be on the
same subnet as the clients. What are you accomplishing by putting the router on
a different subnet? How does the router connect, electrically, to the Internet?

To login to the router, a computer has to be on the same subnet.

Shutting DHCP off doesn't make a router into a switch. You have to shut NAT
Off, either by putting the router into bridge mode (as you can do with some), or
by connecting the LAN and not connecting the WAN. But the NAT function doesn't
require DHCP.
 
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