Re: [PLUG] Home Networking Questions/Solutions

["John Sladek" <jsladek@comcast.net>]

You will have no problem with dhcp at all. The  wireless router will get 
it's WAN address via dhcp from the wired router. In the configuration of the 
wireless router you tell it what range of ip adresses to give out. I'm 
using10.40.111.0/24 on my LAN. Any computers you connect to the wireless 
router will get a 10.40.111.xxx address. Any computers & the wireless 
router's WAN interface will get an ip for the . The linksys default is 
192.168.1.xxx.

So to make my own bad ascii attempt of drawing this for you.


.            internet (comcast isp)
.                         |
.            ____________
.            | 68.80.174.123| <-- wired router WAN interface IP address via 
DHCP from comcast server
.            -----------------
.            |192.168.1.1     | <---wired router LAN interface IP address 
specified in routerconfig
.            -----------------
.              |                 |
.              |                 |
.              |     ----------------
.              |     |192.168.1.100| <-- some computer hooked to wired 
router IP Addr via dhcp
.              |     ----------------
.              |
.  ----------------
.  |192.168.1.101| <---wireless router WAN interface IP address via DHCP 
from wired router
.  ----------------
.  |10.40.111.1     | <---wired router LAN interface IP address specified in 
routerconfig
.  -----------------
.                 |
.  ----------------
.  |10.40.111.100| <-- some computer cabled to wireless router IP Addr via 
dhcp
.  ----------------
.
.  ----------------
.  |10.40.111.101| <-- some computer wirelessly to wireless router, IP Addr 
via dhcp
.  ----------------




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