Unconventional Network Setup

[RandUser]

Currently I have three computers and a D-Link wireless router on my
network. The DSL modem is connected to the router, which has machine A
connected to it by ethernet. Machine B is connected to the network
through its wifi card. Machine C is connected to B through an
additional ethernet card. A and B use XPhome, C uses XPpro. I am
currently using XP's internet connection sharing with B's wifi
connection - which sets B's IP to 192.168.0.1 for its ethernet card. C
is then set to 192.168.0.4. I had to change the default router IP to
192.168.1.1 to accomodate this, which means that A and B [wifi card]
are now set IPs of 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3, respectively.

This means that I have two subnets on my network - which isn't what I
want. My overall question is thus: is it possible to have one
contiguous subnet for my network?
Thanks a ton for any information on this,
-James out.

 

[Carey]

Is there any reason why all PCs are not connected to the router either wired
or wireless?

Carey

 

[James Egan]

This means that I have two subnets on my network - which isn't what I
want. My overall question is thus: is it possible to have one
contiguous subnet for my network?

That is why bridging between two nics was introduced in winxp.
Formerly this had to be done by routing which makes the network
configuration a little harder but it should all still work okay either
way if configured correctly.


Jim.

 

[RandUser]

This is not possible based on the positions of the computers involved -
the machine hanging off the 'end' of the network can't get a steady
wifi connection to the router [I've tried] and is too far away to be
wired in.

 

[RandUser]

I tried bridging when I was first setting the network up. However,
when the NICs were bridged the computer hosting the bridge lost its
connection to the network and I couldn't figure out why. I forgot to
mention this in the original post.

 

[Yamin]

I had the exact same problem.

I managed to finally get it working. I did this by bridging my
wireless/lan connection. I had to foce my wireless into
'compatibility' mode to get things to work.
-turn off all ICS or anything else
- bridge the connection (should lose wireless connectivity)
- run 'netsh bridge show' (make a note of the index of the wireless
card...mine was 1)
- run 'netsh bridge set a 1 e' substiuting 1 with the index above

Your wireless should now bridge correctly. Assing your xbox auto
everything and it just works.

Reference this MS article:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_0...
Yamin

 

[RandUser]

Ah, thank you immensely Yamin.
For anyone that is having this same problem, use XP pro for your
network bridge - XP home will leave the computer hosting the bridge off
of the network.

-James out.