how to share files between subnets?

Ultra_Extreme · 18 Aug 2008 at 20:18

Not sure if my terminology is right but heres the thing,

We have a fairly complex home spec simple 10/100 network covering a few buildings. Basically theres a router at the main line, then a selection of switches linking the buildings. In the buildings are wireless routers working as AP's.

In order for the wireless AP's to do their job, ie supply t'internet to residents, they are attached to the network via their WAN sockets and assigned static ip's on the main subnet (192.168.11.x) Such as 192.168.2.x and 3.x respectivley.

This however means that wireless clients cannot connect and share media as their ip's are dhcp assigned 2.x and 3.x extentions. Not a problem in the main but i do have a single wireless client that i would like to be able to connect to media, printing etc on the 11.x network. Is there a way to do this? Its odd as i can use remote desktop between the nets fine!

Cheers guys

Ultra_Extreme · 19 Aug 2008 at 17:36

no one?

Deleted member 77746 · 19 Aug 2008 at 17:45

You have the terminoligy right but umm, how many workstations are you talking about here? Below 50 or more than 50?, you would need to place a router to do all the routing for you. for example a Cisco 2500/2600. It's all in the configuration.

Dist · 19 Aug 2008 at 20:16

Is there any specific reason you need seperate subnets? why not simply leave the wireless routers WAN port empty, and use one of its LAN ports to connect the wireless routers to the switch, then disable DHCP on the wireless routers (because you dont want multiple devices on 1 network with DHCP).

Ultra_Extreme · 19 Aug 2008 at 21:32

if i do not use the WAN port on the AP's then wireless traffic is not given access to the gateway. What i mean to say is that if i only use the LAN/Switch ports then wireless connections cannot recieve IP from the primary gateway, they work fine with manual IP's but that is no good for public access. If i try to assign an ip in the range 11.x to a wireless client it cannot access the internet (presumably since there is no bridge between the lan and wan on the AP however i dont seem to be able to do this

tolien · 20 Aug 2008 at 00:23

Are you running a DHCP server on the router, i.e. where are the wireless routers getting their WAN IP from?

Provided the wireless and switch ports on the routers are bridged, there's no reason why it shouldn't work.

Dist · 20 Aug 2008 at 03:19

I just cant realy understand how you have set up your network. Personaly, i have a wired netgear router which connects to my cable modem and a switch, connected to that switch are my computers, and a wireless router connected by its lan port. The wireless router is on the same subnet as everything else, and the gateway is set as the wired router. Any wireless devices is able to get onto the network via the wireless router, and can recieve internet fine as the wireless router correctly uses the wired router as the gateway.

All devices i have use the 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, with my wired router set to 192.168.0.1, my wireless set to 192.168.0.2, and my wired router has DHCP enabled and assigns 192.168.0.3 to .254 to all devices on the network other then itself and the wireless router.