Re: [PLUG] Home Networking Questions/Solutions

[cms <cshanahan@comcast.net>]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 23:15, John Sladek wrote:
> 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
> .  ----------------

So cool! That's exactly what I needed help with. Thank you so much. Thanks to
everyone for their help.

Chris/CMS

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