Hardware Analysis - Home Network

Re: Home Network

Ace Wilborn — 2008-05-18T18:02:50-05:00

Ok, I solved the problem. This is what I did.
I originally had the line from the wired router going to the uplink port on the wireless router. That was my mistake, now the line goes to another switch port on the wireless router. I had already set all of the IP addresses to be within the same range, then all I had to do was statically assign the DNS server address and gateway addresses. It now works great! Thanks!

Re: Home Network

Gerritt — 2008-05-18T04:22:16-05:00

Ace Wilborn said:

Hello, I have a home network that I'm trying to fix. This is how the network is currently set-up. I have a wired router/switch that is hooked up to a cable modem. On that router, I have 2 PC, 1 VOIP adapter, and a line that goes to another part of the house to connect to a wireless router. The wireless router has 1 PC wired to it, and a couple of wireless devices. Now, let's talk about IP addresses and subnet mask. The IP address of the wired router is 192.168.0.1, it's subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, the external IP address of the wireless router is 192.168.1.1, with an subnet of 255.255.255.0, it's internal address ( the one assigned by the wired router) is 192.168.0.101. The computer on the wireless network can see a shared printer on the wired network. The problem is that computers on the wired network cannot see any shared resources on the wireless network. I basically need to fix this network to allow these resources to be seen.

I have already tried changing the subnet mask to 255.255.0.0 on both routers, but that didn't work. Any suggestions???

OK, so the issue resides in the gateway settings for getting from the 192.168.0.0/24 network over to the wireless network of 192.168.1.0/24, and it seems you don't have the route available.
On a 192.168.0.x attached host, type "print route"
You are looking for a reference to the 192.168.1.0/24 network indicating a 192.168.0.101 gateway. If you don't see that, then you need to enter "route -p add 192.168.1.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.101" on all the host on the 192.168.0.0/24 network that need to have access.
Now if you type "route print" you should see an entry for the 192.168.1.0 network.
If it still doesn't work, it is because your WIRELESS network router is blocking the traffic.
You'll need to go into it and find out how it is blocking the access.
You definately want to set the WIRELESS network routers WIRED address as STATIC, and not DHCP assigned, and make sure that you do not have ANY DHCP Servers/Services addressing this specific address.

Gerritt

Re: Home Network

BoT — 2008-05-18T00:33:22-05:00

change the subnet back to 255.255.255.0
in the wired router - set your dhcp range to 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.100
make the wireless router 192.168.0.100 via static, sticky, reserved or what ever they call it
in the wireless router - set your dhcp range from 192.168.0.101 - 192.168.0.200

you basically want to be in the same ip network range but prevent ip conflicts
however, not really good to have two dhcp servers on the same network

so
you could also make the wireless router just a pass through and let the wired router do all the work

also, make sure the resources you want discover, want to be discovered.
many pc's, network devices and other network ressources are set to be invisible on a network by default for security reasons.

Home Network

Ace Wilborn — 2008-05-17T22:26:39-05:00