Preparing a D-Link DI-624 router for your SBS network

Preparing a D-Link DI-624 router for your SBS network - Part 1

By Doug Templeton :: 13 Comments ::

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Preparing a D-Link DI-624 router for your SBS network

The D-Link DI-624 is a wireless router. It has no adsl modem so you won't be using one of these as your internet connection, but you may want to use one as an extra layer of defense between your sbs external NIC and the Internet.

First we need to disable the DCHP server in the router.

Connect a laptop to one of the routers LAN ports.
With a web browser, browse to the IP address of the router, this is 192.168.0.1 usually.
You will be prompted to log in, the default username is 'admin' and the default password is blank (although I have set one).

Click the DHCP button on the home tab.

Click the radio button to disable the DHCP service on the router. Then click the green tick to Apply your setting.

After the router restarts, click the 'Continue' button.

The DHCP service is now disabled.

Comments

By Erik Voets @ Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:21 PM

if you don not know how to disable a dhcp service on your router please don't touch SBS

By Paul Hodson @ Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:59 PM

Only do this if you are using a single network card. Give the router card a fixed IP address if you are using two cards. It is useful to keep the DHCP running if you have clients who need access to the internet without accessing your network.

By Mariette Knap @ Wednesday, September 06, 2006 8:55 PM

Erik, everybody needs to learn. What would you say if I said something like this to you when you don't understand or know something.

By Paul Hutmacher @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 5:28 AM

I've got the same router on my SBS setup and have been using one NIC on my SBS server and allowing the server to configure the router with UPNP after diabling DHCP per this article.

By Jeffrey Kane @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:06 AM

If others need to access the Internet without being part of your domain, you do not need to run DHCP on the router... the SBS will provide an IP address and proper network settings to any client that attaches.

By Jeffrey Kane @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:11 AM

I would also add, in reference to Erik's comment... I would have expected that any article published on this site to be complete... if it's in a section called "Configuring Routers" and is titled, "Preparing a D-Link DI-624 router for your SBS network" then I would expect that it contain ALL preparations needed.

ie, does this router support UPnP, if not, how to manually configure all appropriate settings to allow for port forwarding, GRE protocol and wireless settings.

By Doug Templeton @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:03 AM

There is more to come, but as I have a dayjob that is quite hectic at the moment it may be a couple of days.

By Doug Templeton @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:07 AM

In addition to that. I do take your point Jeffrey, and perhaps I could have mentioned in the summary that it was not a complete guide to preparing the router for a SBS network.

By Ze'ev Ionis @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:39 PM

Doug - Jeffrey beat me to the punch. While I was excited to see "my" router mentioned, I was disappointed when the article only touched on one aspect of the configuration. I would not have minded, had it said "... more to come", but without that I felt like I had been scammed (in the sense that the actual did not meet the sales pitch!). I do however appreciate your taking the time to write the article, and look forward to the rest of it to compare my settings against those recommended. I've actually already learned a couple of things from this article and the feedback, so in that sense it did deliver!

By Doug Templeton @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:58 PM

Part 2 of this guide has already been published and part 3 is currently waiting to be approved. Check here: http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=266&articleType=CategoryView&categoryId=57

Thanks.

By Jeffrey Kane @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:47 PM

Doug, I certainly hope that you took no offense to my comments, and I do appreciate the response. I have a habit of being critical first, and complimenting second... not always the best way to win over new friends! :-)

I think my comments really came from my HIGH expectation of this site, and it's content... I do find that articles published in little pieces like this to be less effective, and the navigation created by these "parts" leaves a lot to be desired. I don't think that this has anything to do with your efforts... but knowing that you will be providing these different "parts", perhaps M&M should hold off on publishing, or at least combine them into one document as the sub-headings get written.

Just my 2centos

By Doug Templeton @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:46 PM

No offense taken. I don't mind constructive criticism.

I think the idea of combining the articles is quite a good one. I'd do it myself if I could

The next router article will at least have:

How to disable DHCP, UPnP, how to forward ports and how to enable VPN Pass Through, before I publish.

By Peter Häcker @ Monday, October 02, 2006 3:27 PM

Is it possible that "SmallBizServer" is publishing these articels for an AVM Fritz!Box FON WLAN 7170 Router?
I´m especially interested in VPN Access through this Router.
Thanx and Greegings
Haecki

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