[Ham-Mac] EchoMac Success Story! (DSL via a D-Link Router to G4 with OSX 10.4.7)

[Slater Tubman]

I am not comfortable coming in "after curfew" on this, but just last  
night I solved a problem with my router/EchoMac/Powerbook.
I returned from a two week holiday to find that my router settings  
were not as they should be.  No explanation for that.  I ended up  
resetting the router (DI624) physically and then I had to attend to  
ports 5198-5200.  I did this by:

Opening the DLink configure page as below, then the Advanced tab,  
then the Firewall tab.
On that page, I enabled Firewall,
Name   EchoMac
Action   Allow
Source   WAN
Destination   LAN   192.168.0.101 (which is Powerbook address in my  
system)
Protocol    UDP  Port Range  5198   5200
Schedule   Always

Apply

The one thing that I cannot figure out is how to set this router to  
make the wireless aspect closed to others, unless I have already  
accomplished this by specifying the MAC addresses in the MAC filters  
setting in FILTERS.  I don't have access to anyone else's PC laptop  
to check this out.  I had previously had reports that a neighbor was  
hopping on board and had made changes to my setting and this is what  
I lost upon return from holidays.

Any/all comments welcome.

p.s.  my Echotest transmission comes through beautifully.

73
Slater  VE5OA

On 11-Sep-06, at 8:32 AM, Dick Kriss wrote:

> First, I want to say thanks to all that responded to my requests  
> for help.
> the winning tip goes to Tim McLeod, VE3TZS.  He broke the code on  
> my deaf
> and dumb setup.
>
>> On 9/10/06 4:41 PM, "Tim McLeod" <ve3tzs at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had trouble getting EchoLink to work on a Dlink router using the
>> configuration you listed.  Use the Virtual Server settings to  
>> forward the
>> three ports required to the IP address of the machine.
>
> Heads Up: The information on the EchoLink web page at
> http://www.echolink.org/firewall_solutions.htm for D-Link routers  
> including
> the link to a screenshot may work for a PC's but it is WRONG  
> (really wrong)
> for a Macintosh D-Link users.
>
> The correct (or what works) procedure is to:
>
> - Using a Web browser (Safari), bring up the  D-Link configuration  
> page.  By
> default, the URL is 192.168.0.1, the user name is "admin", and the  
> password
> is blank.
>
> - Click the Advanced tab.
> - Click the Virtual Server button.
> - Click the Enable button.
> - After Name, enter "EchoLink".
> - After Private IP enter the IP Address shown on your System
> Preference/Network panel under the TCP/IP tab.  Don't guess check it.
> - Protocol, enter or check "Both"
> After Private Port, enter 5200
> After Public Port, enter 5200
> Schedule: check Always
> Click "Apply".
>
> Repeat the above for ports 5198 and 5199
>
> When you are done, you will see three EchoLink settings checked at the
> bottom. That's all folks!
>
> I then opened EchoMac, selected the node and connected. Life is  
> good when
> you HEAR people talking on the repeater.
>
> I don't know about other setups but this worked on my G4-1GHz AGP  
> with OSX
> 10.4.7 using a D-Link 524 Router to AT&T/Yahoo DSL.
>
> Thanks for reading.  I hope this blurb helps someone avoid the  
> aggravation I
> had with the PC information on the EchoLink web page.
>
> 73, Dick AA5VU
>
>
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