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Cisco 827 Rotuers sent out by Alltel *MAY include a generic config which will allow you to access the router's web interface. I don't know about routers people get from other ISP's. My walkthru here will show you how to setup your Cisco 827 router for PPPoE and dynamic IP addresses.
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* MAY means, it might have it or it might not, it's not a guarantee.
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First thing you want to do is setup your computer's TCP/IP settings to obtain IP address automatically and don't have any entries in the gateway settings. Now with the 827 powered up and the phone line, ethernet cable plugged into the 827, plug the other end of the ethernet cable into your computer. Once you have all cables plugged in correctly, reboot the computer. What the computer will do is get an IP address from the 827. In most cases your computer should get the IP address of 10.10.10.2. Now to use the web interface you will have to use either Internet Explorer or Netscape version 4.7 or 4.78. (Newer versions of Netscape and Mozilla don't seem to work for some reason.)
Once the computer has rebooted back into Windows, launch your browser and go to http://10.10.10.1 you should then see a screen like the one below. If that doesn't work for you then you will have to do the command line setup of your router thru a serial interface.
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The first screen will ask you for what language you want to view the web page in. We will be using english because I'm not writing this tutorial in anything else. :)
Click on the continue button.
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Next page you get to watch an animated gif while the webpage initializes the router setup.
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Now the initialization begins.
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Now we are finally into the router configuration splash screen.
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On the left side click on the link for Quick Setup.
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Once in the quick setup fill in your userid, password, VPI and VCI. (For Alltel customers VPI should be 0 and VCI should be 35, Your ISP may have different settings so contact them if you have any doubts.) Also make sure the "Test my connection to the internet" option is checked. Then click on the NEXT button.
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Now the webpage will configure your router's settings.
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Once the configuration window has gone the webpage will ask you to configure the enable password for the router. Hit YES on here.
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On the enable password screen you wil be asked to change the router name. I would just leave it at Router, then put in what you would like to have for an enable password. I would suggest using your account password to keep things simple. Once you have entered they password and confirmed it click on the NEXT button.
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Once again the router does a configuration window. After this the router will run thru a connection test. If this succeeds then you are done. If you still can't get online you may have to reboot the computer, or enter DNS entries into your TCP/IP settings or both.
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There are two areas of concern that I have with this config
First, DHCP lease time is set to 2 hours, second there are no DNS servers in the DHCP config. What does this mean?
2 hour DHCP lease time means that after you have been online for 2 hours, you will not be able to connect onto any more sites until you either reboot the computer or release and renew your ip address.
No DNS servers in the DHCP means that you will not be able to go to webpages because your computer has not been told what the DNS servers are. (DNS servers translate names like www.alltel.net into their numeric dotted quad notation. 166.102.165.210).
Here are the steps to fix this problem. First get into your router into enable mode. Once in the router type the following commands.
config t
ip dhcp pool CLIENT
lease infinite
dns-server 166.102.165.13 166.102.165.11
end
copy run start
Once this is done the lease time is now set infinite and your computer(s) will now have DNS servers. To make this active on the computer either release and renew the IP address or reboot the computer.
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