Hello all,

I hope someone can help me with this one, I guess I forgot basic networking.

I have one Netgear router plugged into a cable modem (I pay extra for the
cable modem to have a static IP address) the Netgear is 192.168.0.0/24

I have a Netgear wireless router connected to the Netgear (if the NG
wireless is plugged directly into the NG router it will take the static IP
address) NG Wireless is 10.0.0.0/24
One computer gets a 192. address from the Netgear router.
One computer gets a 10. from the wireless router(for simplicity I plugged
the computer into the wireless router via CAT5).
The routers are on different floors with CAT5 connecting the two.

Question: Can I assign the computer plugged into the 10. wireless router a
192. address and communicate through the 10. to the 192.?
I am assuming that two NICs in the one computer would help but it is a
laptop. I guess I could get a PCMCIA card and a Dongle...

Note: I know I could take the easy way and configure the wireless to assign
192. addresses rather than 10. but I'd like to figure out if and how to do
this for the learning experiance.
I hope I have explained this well enough.

Thank You,
Tony

The router should route anything that's not on the local subnet. Try it.

TStark wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I hope someone can help me with this one, I guess I forgot basic
> networking.
>
> I have one Netgear router plugged into a cable modem (I pay extra for the
> cable modem to have a static IP address) the Netgear is 192.168.0.0/24
>
> I have a Netgear wireless router connected to the Netgear (if the NG
> wireless is plugged directly into the NG router it will take the static IP
> address) NG Wireless is 10.0.0.0/24
> One computer gets a 192. address from the Netgear router.
> One computer gets a 10. from the wireless router(for simplicity I plugged
> the computer into the wireless router via CAT5).
> The routers are on different floors with CAT5 connecting the two.
>
> Question: Can I assign the computer plugged into the 10. wireless router a
> 192. address and communicate through the 10. to the 192.?
> I am assuming that two NICs in the one computer would help but it is a
> laptop. I guess I could get a PCMCIA card and a Dongle...
>
> Note: I know I could take the easy way and configure the wireless to
> assign 192. addresses rather than 10. but I'd like to figure out if and
> how to do this for the learning experiance.
> I hope I have explained this well enough.

For the learning experience: you're doing it wrong. Unless you really want
to have two unrelated Local Area Networks, turn off DHCP on the wireless
router and assign it a static IP such as 192.168.0.245. This will turn the
wireless router into a wireless access point. It isn't a question of "doing
it the easy way"; it's a question of doing it the right way. Now if you
*want* two separate and unrelated Local Area Networks, then you can leave
things the way you have them but you will have to choose which LAN you want
a computer to belong to - a computer with one network adapter can't belong
to two LANs simultaneously. And really, what would be the point?

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

"Malke" wrote:

> TStark wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I hope someone can help me with this one, I guess I forgot basic
> > networking.
> >
> > I have one Netgear router plugged into a cable modem (I pay extra for the
> > cable modem to have a static IP address) the Netgear is 192.168.0.0/24
> >
> > I have a Netgear wireless router connected to the Netgear (if the NG
> > wireless is plugged directly into the NG router it will take the static IP
> > address) NG Wireless is 10.0.0.0/24
> > One computer gets a 192. address from the Netgear router.
> > One computer gets a 10. from the wireless router(for simplicity I plugged
> > the computer into the wireless router via CAT5).
> > The routers are on different floors with CAT5 connecting the two.
> >
> > Question: Can I assign the computer plugged into the 10. wireless router a
> > 192. address and communicate through the 10. to the 192.?
> > I am assuming that two NICs in the one computer would help but it is a
> > laptop. I guess I could get a PCMCIA card and a Dongle...
> >
> > Note: I know I could take the easy way and configure the wireless to
> > assign 192. addresses rather than 10. but I'd like to figure out if and
> > how to do this for the learning experiance.
> > I hope I have explained this well enough.
>
> For the learning experience: you're doing it wrong. Unless you really want
> to have two unrelated Local Area Networks, turn off DHCP on the wireless
> router and assign it a static IP such as 192.168.0.245. This will turn the
> wireless router into a wireless access point. It isn't a question of "doing
> it the easy way"; it's a question of doing it the right way. Now if you
> *want* two separate and unrelated Local Area Networks, then you can leave
> things the way you have them but you will have to choose which LAN you want
> a computer to belong to - a computer with one network adapter can't belong
> to two LANs simultaneously. And really, what would be the point?
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> Don't Panic!
>

Very good points, I am using the wireless router for wireless connections, I
just plugged it in directly taking the wireless out of the mix. I will do it
the right way as you discribed. I really appreciate the direction on this!
There really isn't a reason for me to be connected to two at once, I was just
pushing the bounds of logic and making sure I really confused myself along
the way...:P
Time to search for some basic networking information.

Thank you for the quick response Malke!!

Tony

TStark wrote:

> Very good points, I am using the wireless router for wireless connections,
> I just plugged it in directly taking the wireless out of the mix. I will
> do it the right way as you discribed. I really appreciate the direction on
> this! There really isn't a reason for me to be connected to two at once, I
> was just pushing the bounds of logic and making sure I really confused
> myself along the way...:P
> Time to search for some basic networking information.

You're welcome, Tony. I enjoyed your good-natured, humorous response too!

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!