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RV042 VPN Setup

Confusing setup, diagrams help.

I would say what purpose it the DLINK serving. Get rid of it.
The gateway (your modem) is attached to your Crisco (router).
Why do you want to stick another router into the mix??

The RV is quite capable of being your dhcp server and VPN device.
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Hi Anav,

Thanks for the reply.

The link goes to a diagram of the network setup
»dl.dropbox.com/u/37913797/homeNetwork.pdf

I'm using the the DLINK for its WIFI so it has to stay

reply to SSA1978

I've tried that but I'll give it another shot.

Here are the steps I plan on taking.
1. Turn off DHCP on the DLink
2. Turn on DHCP on the RV042
3. Power down all
4. Power on Gateway, wait a minute
5. Power on RV042, wait a minute
6. Power on Dlink
7. Cross fingers

I've read in some cases that I have to do some forwarding or routing. Is this true?

reply to SSA1978
Not sure about any port forwarding, only because you haven't really defined what it is you'll be doing. As far as the DHCP piece is concerned, after you have turned it off on the DLINK and then turned it on in the RV042, just restart one of your PC's. You should also have one connected directly to the RV042 as well for a "sanity" check.

To use the DLINK as a wifi AP/switch follow the link instructions.

»Wireless Networking Forum FAQ »Using a Wireless Router as an Access Point

reply to SSA1978

Things don't seem to be working. This time i took the Dlink out of the equation. It is not powered on.

This is what I did:
1. Unplugged the Dlink Router entirely (i'm now running a wired network)
2. Set the RV042 as the DHCP server
3. Plugged a PC into the RV042 lan port
4.

The RV042 has a WAN ip address but I still have no internet on the PC that is direct wired into a LAN port on the RV042. This is driving me a nuts.

Question: Do I have to manually set the DNS Server IP address in the RV042. It says required?

I thought it would be assigned by the WAN

reply to SSA1978
Can you login to the RV042 admin web page?
If so, does this routers WAN indicate that it has a public IP address or a private address?
During the changeover from the dlink to the rv did you power off the modem?

It just started working. I changed the mode to gateway rather than router and it worked.

Thank you everyone for your help. Now I've got to get the VPN to work.