DeathLace Posted September 9, 2003 Share Posted September 9, 2003 Me and my roommates have a SMC Cable/DSL Broadband Router. Very basic, but very annoying. You go to the website (the router's one) and just config it, so I turned the firewall off from my friends computer. He can now ping IP's and connect to game servers. My other friend's comp isn't here yet, but my internet works. But I can't ping IP and connect to game servers. Do I have to disable the router's firewall on the router's website from my computer too? The annoying this is when I do it disconencts and reconnects the router and it causes the internet to go down, and then I'd have to reset the cable modem and the router which causes a huge hassel. How can I fix this? Thanks! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAcOdIn Veteran Posted September 9, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 9, 2003 No turning off the firewall from any computer on the network will turn off the firewall for them all. Where you prbably screwed up is the firewall itself needs to be on because on the SMC routers that also controls the NAT functions, but under the firewall page uncheck everything like RIP defects, discard ping from WAN, SPI filtering and so on. It's really weird how SMC set it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisbo Posted September 9, 2003 Share Posted September 9, 2003 I never used a SMC router I use a Linksys.... much easyer to configure I find.... how is your router configured..... i.e. is DHCP mode enabled? if so.. make sure you don't have an IP on your NIC if it isn't enabled, you need an IP on your NIC does this make sense to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathLace Posted September 9, 2003 Author Share Posted September 9, 2003 I never used a SMC routerI use a Linksys.... much easyer to configure I find.... how is your router configured..... i.e. is DHCP mode enabled? if so.. make sure you don't have an IP on your NIC if it isn't enabled, you need an IP on your NIC does this make sense to you? DHCP is enabled... and my IP is just the one from the router, i.e. 192.168.2.101, my roommates is .100 at the end. And to mAcOdIn, So I have to turn it off on the webbased config that the router has on my computer as well then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAcOdIn Veteran Posted September 9, 2003 Veteran Share Posted September 9, 2003 No the router doesn't have seprate profiles for each PC, you can make the change from any computer and it will affect them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wisbo Posted September 9, 2003 Share Posted September 9, 2003 and you don't have any "fake" IP's specified on your NIC? that's the only thing I can think of if all the routers settings are at its default it should work other than that, I've never used SMC routers so... I don't know what else to tell you sorry.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathLace Posted September 9, 2003 Author Share Posted September 9, 2003 I hate this, I did it and it still won't work :(. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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