Re: Trying to assemble home LAN with 4 routers, need help with subnets!
- From: "Chris Shearer Cooper" <chrisnews@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:13:07 -0600
You are correct that currently, all 4 routers are connected in series.
I don't see any setting on the router for WAP (it's a LinkSys WRT54GS) but
it's got an "Operating Mode" I can switch between Router and Gateway; I'm
thinking that Gateway might be the equivalent of WAP, it lets the laptop (on
the wireless router) see a shared drive on the desktop (on the firewall/VPN
router).
What's strange in this setup, is that the laptop can ping the desktop but
not vice-versa. I set up some static routing in the VPN/Firewall router
that directs 192.168.3.* via gateway 192.168.2.139 (which is the static IP
of the wireless router in the VPN/Firewall router's subnet) but that doesn't
help. What can I look into, to find out why that is?
See if I can draw this with ASCII characters ...
(Internet IP)
DSL modem
11.0.0.1
|
11.0.0.5
VoIP router
192.168.14.1
|
192.168.14.2
VPN/firewall router
192.168.2.1 --------- 192.168.2.160 desktop
|
192.168.2.139
Wireless router
192.168.3.1 ----------- 192.168.3.5 laptop
"Chuck" <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u38be1l5gql7j4md1fpv321av94vid5s5r@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:09:09 -0600, "Chris Shearer Cooper"
> <chrisnews@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>First let me describe the situation ... first comes a DSL router, then a
>>router that does my VoIP, then a router that does my firewall and VPN,
>>then
>>a wireless router. What a pain.
>>
>>I've gotten pretty good at getting things to basically function, but I
>>don't
>>know enough to get things to work like I really want.
>>
>>For example - the wireless router plugs into one of the ports on the
>>firewall/VPN router. Right now, I've got the firewall/VPN router set to a
>>subnet of 192.168.2.*, and the wireless router set to a subnet of
>>192.168.3.*. I used to have the wireless router set to "gateway" mode,
>>which meant that my laptop (on the wireless router) was able to use a
>>printer on my main computer (on the firewall/VPN router). However, some
>>of
>>the multi-player games my son and I like to play didn't function properly
>>in
>>that mode, so I tried setting the wireless router to "router" mode (it
>>recommended that anyway) and it didn't help the multi-player games, and
>>now
>>the laptop can't share the printer.
>>
>>Do folks have recommendations about where I can go to learn more about how
>>routers differ from gateways, how to get subnets working properly, what
>>Windows needs to have file/printer sharing work, what multi-player games
>>require of their network, that sort of thing?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Chris
>
> Chris,
>
> I'm not really clear how the "DSL router" and the VOIP router are setup.
> Do you
> mean that the 4 routers are connected in series?
> Internet <=> DSL router <=> VOIP router <=> firewall / VPN <=> wireless
> or is it more complicated?
>
> Is the only problem between the firewall and wireless routers? That's an
> easy
> one to fix. Use the wireless router as a WAP.
> <http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-on-lan-with-two-routers.html>
>
> If that's not it, please repost, and provide more detail as to what
> connects to
> what.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
> http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
> Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
> My email is AT DOT
> actual address pchuck mvps org.
.
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