Confused re: subnets

qbhatti

qbhatti

qbhatti

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Hi

I am trying to do somethign in my home network.
I have just got hold of a 4g router so I can have some sort of backup when cityfiber decide they want to shut me down.
the problem is, whenever i set the IP of the 4g router to anything in the 192.168.0 or 192.168.1 i just cant seem to be able to access it, so i am stuck with it on 192.168.32.1


now, how do i access this page from my desktop? 192.168.0. addresss?
 
Orcvader said:
You might be better off getting a new router with dual WAN, so one for your main connection, and then plug the 4G router into that, assuming it supports bridge mode. That way it will also automatically fall back to the 4G connection if the main connection fails, or maybe even use the two together.
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I'm running opnsense and have two gateways in a group, main one being tier1 and the backup being tier2, and offline mode being the thing what initiates a switchover.
My router is overkill for what I use it for.

It's just understanding subnets..I don't get it.


I know in windows I have set a static IP and then used subnet 255.255.254.0 so I can access 192.168.1.x addresses.

Windows pulls an error when I set it to 255.255.220.0
 
So I just want to be able to access the config page of the 4g router...that is on 192.168.32.x , from my server which is on 192.168.0.x

Most of my devices have static IPs set in opnsense as a lot are smarthome related and they really misbehave with home assistant if IPs keep changing.
 
thank you folks ! I get it now.
it seems to be purring along OK on its own without me having to do anything - again, I dont understand why I can access .32.x from my .0.x but i can.
 
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