Anybody out there using a linksys wireless router with their Nl15? I had it working just fine for months, then had to replace both the router, the modem, and the NL115 after what I assume was a lightning strike. Since then I've been able to get to partial functonality, but not full.
The station is in SW Puerto Rico on top of a hill (600 ft elevation) overlooking the Caribbean. It's a reserach site for dry forest restoration so we're trying to monitor remotely both met conditions and the status of the site solar/wind electrical system. Feel free to try to access the NL115 anytime, especially next time a hurricane is hitting PR.
Specifics: CR1000 with standard met sensors plus AC system battery voltage. Remote location off grid, linked to internet via Highesnet satellite dish (HN7000S) with static IP. The modem IP address is 67.46.26.53, and the way I understand this is that both the linksys router and everything running on its LAN should be addressable as 67.46.26.54.
I've presently got a laptop and the NL115 on the LAN. The NL115 has 192.168.1.101 as it's internal address. I can talk to it fine from my laptop but nobody seems to be reach it from outside. I have the linksys router configured for static IP and have forwarding set for ports 80 and 6785 to the NL115 (.101). There's also a place in the linksys programming wher you can specify whether it's to serve as a router or a gateway. I have it set now as router because I figure the Hughesnet modem is the gateway. But I thibk I've tried it both ways with no effect.
The basic problem here is that I don't understand enough about TCP/IP and routers to really know what I'm doing. So fixing things is difficult.
Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!! -- Phil
Phil,
When making an analogy with my experience with DSL modems, the HughesNet modem should be set into a transparent mode. It will blindly pass everything between the Linksys and the sat service. With the HughesNet modem transparent, the external static IP you have been assigned will be given to the Linksys router. With this, the Linksys becomes your gateway and firewall. Now you need to punch a few holes into the firewall using IP/port forwarding. TCP communications for external port 80 and 6785 can be forwarded to 192.168.1.101 on ports 80 and 6785 respectively.
Check to see if the modem can be set in a transparent mode.
* Last updated by: Sam on 5/11/2009 @ 9:06 AM *
Sam - Thanks for the response. I haven't replied only because I've been very busy.
First, the Hughes modem isn't programmable at all by the user, only by Hughes. But as far as I can tell it works "transparently" as you hoped. From the outside, people can ping both the modem and the linksys router.
As for the rest, I'm already doing all that. The only possibility I can see is that my setting the Linksys to "router" rather than "gateway" is a problem.
When I get a few minutes, I'll try switching that setting. I also want to try setting the NL115 to 192.168.1.110 rather than 101 and make sure it's set up for a static IP. I think that maybe letting it pull an address from the router via DHCP may be the wrong approach.
If you have any further thoughts, pleaes let me know. I'll get back once I've tried the above.
Cheers, Phil