connectivity between wired and wireless lans at home

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Hi,

Any input, suggestion on this topic is highly appreciated!

My home network started out as a wired lan which works rather well. It is
based on a Linux (RedHat) router and a hub. The Microsoft PC's on this WIRED
segment work very well, using file and print sharing. Also, a McAfee product
is installed on each of these PC's which run XP SP2. I extended the network
recently with a wireless Linksys router (wtr54gc) device. The wireless
network segments works well on it's own, same as the wired network. All the
PC's on the wireless segment are able to use file and print sharing, and
again a McAfee product is installed on each PC. One of the PC's on the
wireless segment is a new Windows Vista.

My problem is that I can not connect between the computers on these networks?

Any ideas how to solve it? The (non-experts) at Linksys company refered me
to Microsoft for advise.

Thank you -
 
Hi,

Any input, suggestion on this topic is highly appreciated!

My home network started out as a wired lan which works rather well. It is
based on a Linux (RedHat) router and a hub. The Microsoft PC's on this WIRED
segment work very well, using file and print sharing. Also, a McAfee product
is installed on each of these PC's which run XP SP2. I extended the network
recently with a wireless Linksys router (wtr54gc) device. The wireless
network segments works well on it's own, same as the wired network. All the
PC's on the wireless segment are able to use file and print sharing, and
again a McAfee product is installed on each PC. One of the PC's on the
wireless segment is a new Windows Vista.

My problem is that I can not connect between the computers on these networks?

Any ideas how to solve it? The (non-experts) at Linksys company refered me
to Microsoft for advise.

Thank you -
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Are you using the WTR54GC (WRT54GC??) as a router, or an access point? You need
to do the latter. Either the Linksys or Linux needs to be treated as an access
point, and the other becomes the one router and DHCP server.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-on-lan-with-two-routers.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-on-lan-with-two-routers.html
 
Hi Chuck,

Thanks for your response. I am looking into it.

First, you are correct, the Linksys device is WTR54GS - Wireless G travel
Router with Speed Booster. Let me give more details on the setup.
The wired segment is on subnet 192.168.1.0, all IPA are static IP's and the
wireless router or access point is connected to this segmant on say
192.168.1.10. It is then extending a wireless lan on segment 10.10.10.1
which connect the PC's on this segment perfectly fine.

I read the article you mentioned, and I still can not figure out how to
enable connectivity between these two network segments?

Any further advise is welcome!

Thanks, Jonathan.

The problem is
 
You can actually do this with almost any router, you just need to change the
configuration of the new wireless router.

Connecting two SOHO broadband routers together.

Configure the IP address of the secondary router to be in the same subnet as the
primary router, but out of the range of the DHCP server in the primary router.
For instance DHCP server addresses 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.0.100, I'd assign
the secondary router 192.168.0.254 as it's IP address.

Disable the DHCP server in the secondary router.

Setup the wireless section just the way you would if it was the primary router.

Connect from the primary router's LAN port to one of the LAN ports on the
secondary router. If there is no uplink port and neither of the routers have
auto-sensing ports, use a cross-over cable. Leave the WAN port unconnected!

Hi,

Any input, suggestion on this topic is highly appreciated!

My home network started out as a wired lan which works rather well. It is
based on a Linux (RedHat) router and a hub. The Microsoft PC's on this WIRED
segment work very well, using file and print sharing. Also, a McAfee product
is installed on each of these PC's which run XP SP2. I extended the network
recently with a wireless Linksys router (wtr54gc) device. The wireless
network segments works well on it's own, same as the wired network. All the
PC's on the wireless segment are able to use file and print sharing, and
again a McAfee product is installed on each PC. One of the PC's on the
wireless segment is a new Windows Vista.

My problem is that I can not connect between the computers on these networks?

Any ideas how to solve it? The (non-experts) at Linksys company refered me
to Microsoft for advise.

Thank you -
Click to expand...

John Will
Microsoft MVP - Networking
 
Hi Chuck,

Thanks for your response. I am looking into it.

First, you are correct, the Linksys device is WTR54GS - Wireless G travel
Router with Speed Booster. Let me give more details on the setup.
The wired segment is on subnet 192.168.1.0, all IPA are static IP's and the
wireless router or access point is connected to this segmant on say
192.168.1.10. It is then extending a wireless lan on segment 10.10.10.1
which connect the PC's on this segment perfectly fine.

I read the article you mentioned, and I still can not figure out how to
enable connectivity between these two network segments?

Any further advise is welcome!

Thanks, Jonathan.
Click to expand...

Jonathan,

You are connecting the two networks (your cabled computers and your WiFi
computers) by a router, and you have a second router connecting everything to
the Internet. You need to have only one router, that connects your network (and
all computers) to the Internet and provides DHCP service. You need to make an
access point (aka bridge / hub / switch) out of one of the routers.

Decide which router to use as a router (to connect to your Internet service) and
which router you wish to convert to an access point. On the latter, connect
each computer as peers (no connection to the WAN) and turn off the DHCP server.
With each computer connected as peers, everything will be on the same subnet,
and every computer will be able to browse every other computer.

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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actual address pchuck mvps org.
 
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