Hello, I have 2 Buildings located about 1000 Feet apart, I am replacing a failed Bridge and antennas that were working for several years, I Have 2 1262 N AP's using AIR-ANT2460NP antennas on each, I have this working and I think i have this set up correctly in my lab. But i have a couple of questions. What speeds should i expect to see? I'm hoping for N Speeds Is there a way to see which rate was negotiated? Do i need to set the Antenna Gain to 6DB in the radio configurations? Do these leads from the antennas need to be connected to a specific connector on the AP in the 2.4Ghz side? and one more. I have this set up as Root Bridge and non root bridge. Is there any reason i should do it this way over WGB? There are no clients connecting, Just a bridge here.. Thank you so much. Joe ... View more

Hello, I am working for a small town who has just installed fiber between all of their town offices and properties, Less than 10 sites in all. Just a quick question, All of the sites need access back to the main building, They dont nessescarilly need access to each other but they may in the future for VOIP, Do you guys recommend Building this as a Layer2 network, Layer 3 switch in the core with vlans for each building then trunking to the building's switch and putting all ports in that vlan? Or maybe make it all layer 3 and treat the fiber connections as leased lines and IP each end and route all the traffic? do you guys have any thoughts either way? Thanks ... View more

So here is the situation I'm replacing a netgear prosafe or something at the head office with a Cisco 1800. I had a few VPN tunnels coming into it connected to other offices/vendors and the tunnels worked fine.. In my main office I have a Domain controller that is the main DNS Server for our internal network. It also our external Facing DNS Server as well ( I know I know) I just inherited it.. So everything works fine with the netgear. When I configure the 1800 and get it working, the tunnels come up and everything is good, except for one thing.. I have an office with an XP Machine and a small netgear router with a vpn tunnel to the main office where the DNS Points to 10.51.44.9 which is the IP of the DC. Once the Cisco was put in it could not query that DNS server at all. I have the nat statement.. ip nat inside source static udp 10.51.44.9 53 interface FastEthernet0/0 53 in the 1800 to allow for outside access to this DNS Server. When I take it out. DNS works fine again on the XP Machine.. the problem is I can't leave it out or everything will stop working.. Any ideas? ... View more

Hello, I have a 5510 that I?m using as my firewall/VPN Device. I want to allow access to SharePoint 2007 through Web VPN for some investors that we have. When I connect to the device it works great. i connect to it using my public IP say 1.1.1.1. But i get a certificate error using IE7. i want to avoid this so i would like to purchase a cert from VeriSign, the one that turns the IE address bar Green, i also want to set up a host record with my DNS provider pointing to the firewall. The question is, how do i do this on the ASA? and when i set up the cert with VeriSign do I use the DNS hostname i.e. vpn.domain.com? or do I have to use the IP and is there anywhere on the ASA that i have to tell it that it is vpn.domain.com? Sorry about the question but i don?t really know certificates.. Thx, ... View more