Accessing printer on different subnets

zillah · 22 Sep 2009 at 11:13

Hi

I have got this scenario Netgear CG814WG cable wireless modem connected (does not have VPN feature) to a VPN router (Netgear FSV318)

Cable wireless modem on 10.10.0.1 and its LAN ip address are : 10.10.0.30/24-10.10.0.100/24 (DHCP range) ,,,,one of its LAN ports (4 ports) is connected to VPN router (Netgear FSV318).

WAN port for VPN router (Netgear FSV318) is 10.10.0.20 , and its gateway address is 10.10.0.1

LAN (8 ports) ip addresses for VPN router (Netgear FSV318) are DHCP range : 192.168.0.30/24 - 192.168.0.100/24.

HP printers (startic address 192.168.0.23) and Desktop (dynamic address) are connected to VPN router (Netgear FSV318).

Laptop is connected wirelessly (not wired) to the cable wireless modem,,,,,,,,,,,,,means laptop has an ip address of type 10.10.0.x,,,,wireless it has to have ip address of type 10.10.0.x

The reason I have this setting because cable wireless modem, does not have VPN capabilities unlike Netgear FSV318.

How can I connect my laptop to the printer ?

How can I share folders on my desktop with laptop ?

Note: I can not set Cable wireless modem to bridge mode.

Thanks

EsaT · 22 Sep 2009 at 11:35

At least you have to do port forwarding for ports used by network printer into VPN router so that traffic can get in from outside its LAN.
(for PC in WLAN printer would show as 10.10.0.20 IP)

Port used by LPR printer is 515 and that by TCP/IP printer 9100 and also Googling for that particular printer surely isn't bad thing.

paradigm · 22 Sep 2009 at 12:09

Does your cable modem not support static routes?

If so, create a static route to 192.168.0.0/24 through gateway 10.10.0.20.

zillah · 22 Sep 2009 at 21:48

Does your cable modem not support static routes?
If so, create a static route to 192.168.0.0/24 through gateway 10.10.0.20.

I was not able to find that option in its manual

Code:

http://documentation.netgear.com/cg814wgv3/enu/202-10297-01/pdfs/FullManual.pdf

paradigm · 22 Sep 2009 at 21:52

You should still be able to do similar using the ROUTE command in cmd on the laptop.

Code:

ROUTE add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 10.10.0.20

I think that'll do it, it's been a while since I played with the ROUTE command.

zillah · 22 Sep 2009 at 21:56

You should still be able to do similar using the ROUTE command in cmd on the laptop.

I will try that now , but is this coomand will add this static route into the routing table as a permenant entry or temporarly (i.e I have to add it every time I switch on the laptop ?)

Thanks

paradigm · 22 Sep 2009 at 22:03

Adding a "-p" should make it a persistent route IIRC.

Code:

ROUTE -p add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 10.10.0.20

zillah · 22 Sep 2009 at 22:29

I added the below static route to the laptop :

ROUTE add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 10.10.0.20

From the laptop I was able to ping 192.168.0.1 (FSV318) ,,,,,but I could not ping 192.168.0.24 (printer) and I was not able to ping 192.168.0.10 (Desktop).

From the desktop I was able to the laptop (10.10.0.31)

Although I disabled firewall on both laptop and desktop (ESET smart security)

and I added a static route to the dektop as well :

ROUTE add 10.10.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1