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1 network and adding dsl to it

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Soybomb

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So I'm trying to help someone at a car dealership get their dsl going and its frustrating. They have an existing network for GMAC stuff running on some adt equipment. They want to give an internet connection to each computer as well though and have ordered dsl and a linksys dsl router. So these machines require a certain gateway, etc to be set so they can use this gmac stuff. How can I also configure the machines so they can use the dsl connection which will of course need to have the dsl router set as the gateway. I'm completely stumped
 
Okay I just got back from the site for the first time after seeing the network and I can say that its a wreck. So they have are setup with a 10.x.x.x block of IP's and their gateway is for a satellite connection that lets them access financing/parts information. All of these computers run into a 8 port compaq hub that is linked to the satellite equipment.

At this point what we need is for people to still need to be able to use the satellite connection still to access the internernal network. Those same computers need to be able to access the internet. Since I'm not familar with their system I called their support line. They wanted $150 an hour with a 1 hour minimum. The guy was nice enough to say that in the past they've had the most luck with hooking dsl up to the linksys router, plug the router into the hub, leave all the computers on the hub with their existing IP's but change the gateway address on each machine to that of the linksys router. Then in the linksys he recommend we set up static routing tables to be sure that all internet traffic go through the dsl and the rest through their satellite connection.

At this point this all sounds good enough, but I will admit i've never had to setup the static routing tables. How would I do this on the linksys? Their IP's as I said on the client machines are all 10.x.x.x private type addy's. At this point we'd rather not touch the machine with the satellite connection so thats not considered a possible solution there. Essentially my understanding would be that we should be able to plug the router into the hub, change the gateway IP on each machine to that of the router, then just go to the static ip webpage and essentially say that all traffic bound for 10.*.*.* should be requested over the gateway address that is currently the satellite machine.

My question left then is that the linksys says it will accept up to I believe 20 static routes and you can use 0's to denote entire network routing. So would 10.0.0.0 set to LAN route all traffic on the 10. ip class back through the LAN or would it just be routing 10.0.0.x through the lan? So would I then just have to pick 20 different class c blocks to route or could I route the entire class a block of ip's with 0's?

Actually now that I think about it, what they're accessing may well not be a 10.x.x.x address. if I find out the address of the site they are accessing though I could just set a static route making the gateway the already set gateway of 10.x.x.x right?

That was a long rambling mess I realize so if you have any good info or links on static routing with 2 networks just let me know 😉 Thanks 🙂
 
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