Ned wireless router on both lan and wan without being the router.

TiribulusTiribulus HOCKEYTOWN USA
edited November 2005 in Science & Tech
Please try to follow this folks. I just got a D-link DI-624 and matching cardbus adapter kit for my wife. I DO NOT want to use the wireless router as my broaband router. I have a Coyote linux box doing that just fine already. I want to use the wireless so my wife can access BOTH the web and our lan. The trouble is the D-Link uses a different subnet by default with which I can access the web setting it up with a static address on my existing lan under it's wan properties. However under this setup, being on a different subnet it cannot see my lan. If I setup it's lan settings on my existing lan nothing works including the web. Do I give it the same static IP both lan and wan? Different? or will this just not work? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>--Tiribulus-> :D

Comments

  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    Take the wireless router back to the store and buy a wireless access point. That's what you want.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • TiribulusTiribulus HOCKEYTOWN USA
    edited November 2005
    I bought it because it was a cheap kit from newegg. I can't afford a seperate purchase, taking the hit on the restocking fee, shippping etc. at the moment. That's the only way huh? There's no way to configure it to work like an access point only. I doubt if different firmware would work either. Probably different chips. $H1T!
    >>>--Tiribulus-> :D
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    This could work:
    Turn off the DHCP server on the wireless router and connect your current router to one of the internal ports on the wireless router's switch (any port except the uplink). The wireless access point on the wireless router might be bridged with the wireless router's physical switch. Make sure the wireless router's internal IP (WAN IP is irrelevant) is something different than your Coyote's IP.

    Newegg has a restocking fee?

    -drasnor :fold:
  • TiribulusTiribulus HOCKEYTOWN USA
    edited November 2005
    Thanks I'll try that. I have zero experience with anything wireless. Forgive me if this seems goofy. I assume Newegg has one though I've never sent anything back to them.
    >>>--Tiribulus-> :D
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    We were all newbies once. Newegg didn't have a restocking fee last time I had to return something :cool2:.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • TiribulusTiribulus HOCKEYTOWN USA
    edited November 2005
    You sir are a towering intellect of the first order. I disabled the dhcp server and put the cable I had in the wan port into one of the lan ports and it all works.
    Thank yooooo, I don't know why I didn't think of this myself.
    >>>--Tiribulus-> :D
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2005
    Glad to hear it's working :).

    -drasnor :fold:
  • TiribulusTiribulus HOCKEYTOWN USA
    edited November 2005
    Thanks again. I got the encrpytion working now too. I had no idea, but I have at least three other waps near my house and two of em are unencrypted :wink: I'll have to be a good boy.
    >>>--Tiribulus-> :D
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