Router Problem

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Rick Stevens wrote:

> brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Ted Potter wrote:
> >
> >
> > > just guessing but you have two routers both using the same ip block
> > > space. So how does one router route to the other router. Wow, can't
> > > believe I just typed that.
> > > guess two: turn the wireless router in to a wireless access point.
> > >
> > > trust me when I say I am guessing. Someone with network experience
> > > should be able to squash my little guesses like bugs.
> > >
> > > hth
> > >
> >
> >
> > Ted,
> >
> > Thanks for the guesses 8^)
> >
> > Let me see if I understand them.
> >
> > G1 - As they are both 192.168.1. I can go from one to the other
> > but not back out.  I believe your saying I should change one to
> > 192.168.2. (the wireless as it's only got one machine connected
> > so it should be eaiser).  Will that give me any problems getting
> > in and out of other computers?
>
> Wait...both the Linksys and the Motorola are use the same IP?  Bad!
> You're only allowed one machine per IP per network segment.
>
> It's possible you've got conflicting routes.  It'd help if you were to
> show us the config for both the Linksys and Motorola devices, as well
> as the routing table ("netstat -rn") of a machine having problems.
>
> > G2 -not sure what a wireless access point is.....
>
> Any radio that connects wireless machines to wired networks is an access
> point.  While the term is generally reserved for devices that do only
> that, an AP can do other things as well.  For example, your wireless
> routers is also an access point--since it connects wireless devices to
> your wired network.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -

OK, I think I'm confusing things

Linksys - assigned IP 192.168.1.1
Motorola assigned IP 192.168.1.2

Linksys does DHCP for all other addresses.

Wireless computer not available right now but it's assigned IP
was 192.168.1.107 the other day.  I could ping both 192.168.1.2
and 192.168.1.1 but nothing else on the home network (i.e. 192.168.1.100
my son's computer).  My Linux machine has a fixed IP of 192.168.1.50 so
others can get their mail.  I could not ping that either from
192.168.1.2.

I'll get the wireless machine and try it out tomorrow.

thanks,

Brad