How To Get The Motorola 2210-02 To Work With A Linksys Router

Here’s another situation of a modem manufacturer making life much more complicated than it needs to be in order to interface it with a router.

Usually it’s a fairly simple process to interface the two devices: Connect the modem’s internet port to the router’s WAN port and then connect one of the router’s ports to the PC.

If the modem is DSL, then you may have to put the username and password in the router and set it to PPPoe.

That’s about it.

However, with the Motorola 2210-02 you need to do one more step. In the modem you need to set it for “PPP On Computer” so that the username and password information is retrieved from the router rather than the modem.

Also, depending upon your router you may have to change it’s IP address if it has a conflict with the modem’s IP which is 192.168.1.254. Using 192.168.0.x or 192.168.2.x for the router should work fine.

How To Get The Zytel P600 Modem To Work With The Linksys Router

This problem was quite tricky: A client’s PC was able to get onto the internet using their Zytel P600 modem. However, when I connected a Linksys router to provide for wireless access, their internet access failed.

I tried swapping out a different router thinking that the router might be bad. Same results.

I then cloned the MAC address just in case the modem was looking for the specific ethernet card on the PC. Still no internet.

I finally figured out that the Zytel P600 was using the same 192.168.1.1 address as the Linksys router. So the first step was to change the Linksys DHCP to start at a different address. I used 192.168.1.254.

Second, the Zytel *really* wanted to be responsible for the DHCP so I disabled DHCP on the Linksys router.

Finally, instead of connecting the Zytel to the internet port on the Linksys I just connected it to port 1. So in a way, the Linksys was acting just as passthrough hub.

After that both hardwired and wireless internet access worked.