About to give up

[gem]

I'm about to give up on my home-network. I wanted to share printers &
files but neither computer sees the other one. I disabled the windows
firewall and temporarly disabled McAffee but no help. I've run the
windows small network program probably 20 times but nothing. Both
computers see work to the internet fine. One computer id Ethernet
connected to the router and the other through the built in Wireless.
I exchanged several dozen e-mails with 2Wire the router/modem
manufacture and you would have thought operating instructions were
state secrets. About I managed to pull from them was; yes it could
bridge the wireless port to the Ethernet and the wireless IP # was a
little strange. Thats it. Nothings in my manual because I didn't
get a manual. On-line info has been no help. Anyone know anything
about routers let me know if this is configured correctly.

Route List
Subnet IP Subnet Mask Gateway Interface
71.221.83.142 255.255.255.255 71.221.83.142 ppp0 This
is the wireless

172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0 172.16.0.1 bridge0 This is the
Dell

I'm just learning about routers out of necessity.
Shouldn't the 71 IP actually be closer to 172?
They both don't say bridged but bridging and routing are different I
realize.

 

[Chuck]

I'm about to give up on my home-network. I wanted to share printers &
files but neither computer sees the other one. I disabled the windows
firewall and temporarly disabled McAffee but no help. I've run the
windows small network program probably 20 times but nothing. Both
computers see work to the internet fine. One computer id Ethernet
connected to the router and the other through the built in Wireless.
I exchanged several dozen e-mails with 2Wire the router/modem
manufacture and you would have thought operating instructions were
state secrets. About I managed to pull from them was; yes it could
bridge the wireless port to the Ethernet and the wireless IP # was a
little strange. Thats it. Nothings in my manual because I didn't
get a manual. On-line info has been no help. Anyone know anything
about routers let me know if this is configured correctly.

Route List
Subnet IP Subnet Mask Gateway Interface
71.221.83.142 255.255.255.255 71.221.83.142 ppp0 This
is the wireless

172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0 172.16.0.1 bridge0 This is the
Dell

I'm just learning about routers out of necessity.
Shouldn't the 71 IP actually be closer to 172?
They both don't say bridged but bridging and routing are different I
realize.

I'd look at both "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from each computer, and
diagnose the problem. Read this article, and linked articles, and follow
instructions precisely (download browstat!):
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I'm about to give up on my home-network. I wanted to share printers &
files but neither computer sees the other one. I disabled the windows
firewall and temporarly disabled McAffee but no help. I've run the
windows small network program probably 20 times but nothing. Both
computers see work to the internet fine. One computer id Ethernet
connected to the router and the other through the built in Wireless.
I exchanged several dozen e-mails with 2Wire the router/modem
manufacture and you would have thought operating instructions were
state secrets. About I managed to pull from them was; yes it could
bridge the wireless port to the Ethernet and the wireless IP # was a
little strange. Thats it. Nothings in my manual because I didn't
get a manual. On-line info has been no help. Anyone know anything
about routers let me know if this is configured correctly.

Route List
Subnet IP Subnet Mask Gateway Interface
71.221.83.142 255.255.255.255 71.221.83.142 ppp0 This
is the wireless

172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0 172.16.0.1 bridge0 This is the
Dell

I'm just learning about routers out of necessity.
Shouldn't the 71 IP actually be closer to 172?
They both don't say bridged but bridging and routing are different I
realize.

The wireless connection is getting a public IP address from Qwest.net.
It should be getting a private IP address from the router.

I suspect that something's wrong with the setup of the 2Wire router
modem. Make sure that it's set up as a NAT router, so that its WAN
interface gets the public IP address. It appears to be set up in a
bridged mode, where it passes the public IP address on to one of the
computers.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

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[gem]

The wireless connection is getting a public IP address from Qwest.net.
It should be getting a private IP address from the router.

I suspect that something's wrong with the setup of the 2Wire router
modem. Make sure that it's set up as a NAT router, so that its WAN
interface gets the public IP address. It appears to be set up in a
bridged mode, where it passes the public IP address on to one of the
computers.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Programhttp://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Thanks, with your e-mail I was finally able to get somebody at 2wire
with some sense. Had a bad setting (DMZ or something) now IP address
makes sense. Still don't have a local network but I have always felt
this was holding me up.. thanks for the assistance.. Gem

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Thanks, with your e-mail I was finally able to get somebody at 2wire
with some sense. Had a bad setting (DMZ or something) now IP address
makes sense. Still don't have a local network but I have always felt
this was holding me up.. thanks for the assistance.. Gem

You're welcome!
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group
for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com