On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Barry Yu wrote:
In the office there is already an existing LAN with 6 desktop machine 1
dns server / dhcp server / gateway, ip address range 10.1.10.110 ~
10.1.10.240, connection of entire LAN is by cable with a switch box,
every machine is working fine. Now I want to add a Linksys router WRT54G
in the office to enable 2 more laptops ( or more than 2) equipped with
built-in wireless network card for the network, how ever, these laptops
can only go to the Internet and communicate with other wireless laptop
in the same wireless group (Same ssid), but can't communicate with those
wired desktops, the way I connect the wireless router is : With a cat 5
cable one end connects from the Internet port of router and the other
end goes to one of the port in the switch box ( Where all desktops are
connected). I would imagin that unless all of the desktop each adds a
wireless network card to enable them to join the wireless network group,
otherwise 2 different network segments can't communicate at all - Can
anyone give some ideas how to make the wireless group to join the wired
group?
(1) Please wrap your lines at about 72 characters.
(2) What I do is attach the wireless router to the switch using one of the
non-uplink wired ports. I give the router itself an IP (the LAN side, not
the Internet side) on the local net and the local net's netmask. I turn
off its DHCP server, as I have one running on the wired net anyway.
This makes the wireless hub act as a hub instead of a router. All
attached devices, wired or wireless, live on the same LAN.
HTH.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
