Confused over network's separate ip addresses

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At my community centre, I have 7 computers XP in suite connected to a switcher using 192.168.0.XXX and a speedtouch router connected to this switcher, using its default ip 10.0.0.138 so should I be concerned about this?

Also this switcher is connected another switcher which leads to a SBS 2003 server (for use with other client computers in office, not 7 computers in suite) so I disabled DHCP in speedtouch router to avoid any conflict but there is no internet connection, maybe I was doing not right.

Anyone can explain this?
 
You won't be able to see the router if the machines are in a totally different subnet. The switch is totally transparent.
Either the PCs need to change to 10.0.0.0/24, or the Speedtouch needs to change to 192.168.0.0/24.
 
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Thanks...this make sense to me...erm, what you mean by ...0/14 or ...0/29?

Anyway, I will change the ip of router.

Thanks again
 
Bleh, I meant /24 in place of /14. Dunno where the hell /29 came from. :p

10.0.0.0/24 = 10.0.0.1-10.0.0.255. Same drill with 192.168.0.x.

Edit: It's a switch, not a switcher.
 
tolien said:
You won't be able to see the router if the machines are in a totally different subnet. The switch is totally transparent.
Either the PCs need to change to 10.0.0.0/14, or the Speedtouch needs to change to 192.168.0.0/29.
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Do you mean 10.0.0.0/24 and 192.168.0.0/24?

The /29's, /24's and so on are ways of expressing the subnet mask. For example, your network is 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.254. This is the network 192.168.0.0 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 or can be extressed as 192.168.0.0/24.

If you change the IP address of the router, make sure your DHCP servers gives that IP out to the clients as their default gateway.
 
burbleflop said:
If you change the IP address of the router, make sure your DHCP servers gives that IP out to the clients as their default gateway.
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SBS 2003 server is DHCP server so can't have another DHCP in same LAN so I disabled it in Speedtouch, am I doing right thing?

I'm worried that having DHCP enabled in router will cause the problems with SBS 2003 clients trying to connect.
 
barnettgs said:
I'm worried that having DHCP enabled in router will cause the problems with SBS 2003 clients trying to connect.
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You don't have to enable it in the router, you just have to change it appropriately, wherever it is.
 
barnettgs said:
Thanks! :) Any recommended links to learn a bit more about networking?

Cheers
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Yes, first try this website and then have a look around google. I used the Microsoft website a lot for information on Group Policy and Server 2003 which I found very helpful :)
 
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