static routing help

Kotu · 5 Apr 2009 at 15:13

Ive been struggling for a while to get traffic moving through a bridge using static routes. I would prefer to avoid using the network bridging in windows (even though it works when i do try and use it) as I want to keep the networks I have set up on different subnets.

The basic setup is:

router
(wireless) 192.168.1.254
|
(wireless) 192.168.1.85
laptop
(ethernet) 192.168.0.1
|
(ethernet)
switch
(ethernet)

|
(ethernet) 192.168.0.2
normal pc

the reason i have this setup is the normal pc has no room for expansion for wireless. I have tried a number of different usb wireless adapters but so far they all overheat and crash.

the progress so far is to use:
route add 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 on the normal pc
with this added I can ping and trace to the router, if i try to ping google then it gets the ip address (dns working) but no response to the actual ping. I can ping/trace fine from the laptop in the middle which makes me think im missing some static routes on the laptop.

Any ideas what I am missing?

oddjob62 · 5 Apr 2009 at 15:52

Shouldn't need any static routes on the laptop but i have noticed on some cheap routers they won't NAT properly for subnets that aren't directly attached (ie you can ping the router, but nothing on the internet). What router is it? Someone might have a better idea.

Kotu · 5 Apr 2009 at 16:42

A netgear DG834PN, i can ping the normal pc from the routers diagnostic page as well.

oddjob62 · 5 Apr 2009 at 19:44

Kotu said:
A netgear DG834PN, i can ping the normal pc from the routers diagnostic page as well.

Like i said, i've found in the past it's not a routing problem but a NATing problem

s0ck · 5 Apr 2009 at 20:24

By 'bridge' you mean Windows box running ICS?

mejinks · 6 Apr 2009 at 00:25

Your laptop is connected via wireless and Lan?

I had a similar situation, I just set the ip to static for the lan and removed DNS and gateway, it works a treat now.