hello Mark,

I am new to cisco products. This is a new router

As per the instructions on the following page, it says connect the pc to any of the ethernet 10baset port...so i attempted to connect to FE0 ~ FE3 and the pc did not get an ip given to it....next I tried connect the pc to FE4 and still nothing, then I configured the pc to 10.10.10.2 (static) and attempted the same from FE0 thru FE4 and upto FE3 nothing, FE4 worked!!

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps5318/products_quick_start09186a0080511c89.html#wp74383

so now I got the SDM working.....but FE4 is a wan link, and I would like to connect the router to PPPoE via FE4 (WAN) port and SDM warns that once I enable PPPoE I would loose SDM connectivity via FE4....but FE0 ~ FE3 appears to be shutdown......what gives?

by the way, SDM express works and SDM also...

Do you have a device plugged into Fe0 - Fe3? If not they will appear as down. Try plugging another device into one of those ports and hitting the SDM page from them.

yes I did try that.

I tried by configuring the pc as static 10.10.10.2 and then plugging in from Fe0 till FE3 nothing...

and then configured the pc as dynamic ip address, and repeatded the drill..still nothing.

not sure whats up.

When you plug the PC into another port does the port report as up? Where do you have the IP address configured on the FE4 interface or on a vlan interface?

>>When you plug the PC into another port does the port report as up

yes it does....

>>Where do you have the IP address configured on the FE4 interface or on a vlan interface?

for FE4, I did not configure anything, this appears to have been pre-configured for 10.10.10.1 from the factory....

the 10.10.10.1 ip address is configured for the FE4 interface.

You can do this from the command line very easily. Are you familiar with Cisco IOS CLI?

You can enter the following and this should help you:

enable

config t

int fe4

ip address

int vlan1

ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0

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Check to see if this works. If it does then save the configuration:

copy run start

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You can also probably do this from the SDM by clicking on LAN and setting up your network here. You will probably want to first setup your WAN interface like you want it and the move the private IP addressing to the LAN interface.

I am a bit familiar with the IOS Cli, I have connected via the console port. I bought this router to play and learn.

the commands you have suggested, is to enable FE4 with ip address 10.10.10.1.

currently this is already working. what I would like to achieve for now anyways is this:

make FE4 to connect to a dsl modem (pppoe)

setup a dhcp server and hand out ip via FE0 ~ FE3

configure a very basic firewall between FE4 and the inside protected lan..

somewhere here something with NAT needs to be setup also..

any suggestions?

tia