Routing

[sss]

ok.. the big tower on the LEFT is an access point ... it has a dhcp server giving ip's on the 192.168.0.* range


the router on the other side is running in CLIENT mode(IE wireless clients cannot connect to it, it IS a wireless client), it is obtaining its wirelss ip address (192.168.033 from the big tower)

on the lan side the router has its own dhcp assigining 192.168.1.* address.. all the lan pc's get their address from this...

so far so good... now how should the routing be setup for this so that lan pc's can see other computers connected on the main tower

[sss]

[sss]

also the lan part of the router is 192.168.1.1... and that is what the gateway is for all lan clients!

[stoke]

I'd setup the PC's at home to get their ip address from the router and the router's DHCP server should set the default gateway on them machines to 192.168.1.1 [router's LAN ip].

Then the router must take care of all your local network traffic, routing all requests to 192.168.1.* back inside your network, and any other requests it must route through to the AP on 192.168.0.* it must look after.

i.e. You have no choice nor control.

[sss]

well yes.. so far so good

[stoke]

I don't get it ... what is your question ?

Do you want to change what the router does ?
It seems like you're pretty stuck with what it does by default and if you can configure it further ... oh .. I get it ... you've got all this harware lying at home that you also want to use and possibly use the same router with that HW ?

[sss]

well at first... the tower and the pc's could not see each other.. but they magically fixed themselves now... they sorted out their own routing

but


i dont understand their routing tables and what they mean!

[stoke]

um ...

http://www.informit.com/articles/art...p?p=24375&rl=1 = A really good "intro" how-to on Routing and all the components.

http://www.pacificnet.net/~bbruce/route_main.htm = When a PC has 2 Network cards, how to use routing to control the 2 cards and who gets to see what.

The above 2 links should get you to a stage where you can start hexperimenting.

[sss]

ok.. network setup... bf2 ping is 60ms

real speed is about 60KB a second

and uncapped

[SaintMg]

well at first... the tower and the pc's could not see each other.. but they magically fixed themselves now... they sorted out their own routing

i have had some very strange occurances with network's and routers , like i have no idea what to do and how they work just plug this in there that here and turn on . some time non of my pc can see the network other time i can read from a pc but no write access or my favourite when pc A can acess pc B but pc B cant see pc A but can see the server