[TenTec] Hooking up Omni VII to a network now

[John Graves]

Mike,

Yes, you can use the wired interface but you will have to configure a 
different address on the same network (192.168.1.x) I would recommend 
for now that when you use the wireless you disable the wireless and 
disable the wired (unplug it) when you are using the wireless.

By now you should be able to use the OMNI anywhere in the house.  So you 
want to access it from outside the house.  That's a different story. 
One Plug uses another packet type called UDP and it uses a port 
(subdivision sort of) of 49152.

See my attached on networking if you have questions.  What has to happen 
is that you want to let your connection come thorough but block most. 
The Linksys has to be configured so when it sees a UDP packet using Port 
49152, it will pull the destination address (your public address,) and 
replace it with the private address of the OMNI. Then it can connect and 
you are working the world.  This is called reverse NAT and there should 
be a configuration page for this in the Linksys.

Regards,
John Graves
WA1JG
jh.graves at verizon.net

Mike Bryce wrote:
> John and the gang..
> 
> You almost have it correct... the end goal is to be able to work the  
> omni VII from my QTH while I am at a hotel in Moab UT. I now know I  
> can talk to it with a cross over cable and one computer directly.
> 
> Now, next step is to get it to talk to another computer on my  
> network----then---- onto the WWW!
> 
> So the omni VII needs to be able to see the WWW when this is all done
> 
> I'll get a Ethernet switch from best buys
> 
> I take it the switch is transparent to the network? I.E. I don't need  
> to tell the Omni VII the IP address of the switch? Do switches have  
> IP address??
> 
> you said. "If your computer has a wireless card and you are  
> configured for it, try
> to connect to the OMNI.  If not, plug your computer (again with a
> straight through cable) into the switch and try to connect.  There is
> not any reason that it will not work."
> 
> my computer in the shack does in fact have a wireless card that is on  
> the network. Now, can I take a regular ethernet cable, plug that into  
> the computer with the wireless card (I will be plugging it into the  
> ethernet port and not the wireless thingiee) and then "see" the omni  
> VII?
> 
> What about the computer upstairs in the office? It's on a cat line to  
> the wireless access point router. Will I be able to see the omni VII?  
> Will i have to change the IP address (GPgateway) in the omni VII each  
> time I fire up different computer?
> 
> 
> 
> Mike, WB8VGE
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