[TriLUG] Dual Network Question

[Joel Ebel]

Do you really need your wireless network to be on a different subnet? 
Why not turn off the routing/dhcp functions of the wireless router and 
just use it as an access point?  Don't plug anything into the WAN port. 
  Then all your systems, wireless and wired will be in the same subnet 
and connecting between them will be straightforward.

Joel

Aaron Bockover wrote:
> I'm sure this general question has been brought up before, but I'm
> having a heck of a time figuring this out...
> 
> I have a decent sized home-network, with an old PC serving as a router
> (Smoothwall). The gateway/LAN address for it is 192.168.0.1. It is the
> primary network, and serves the DSL connection. I've got a switch with
> about 15 devices on it, including a D-Link AirPlus G wireless router.
> The gateway/LAN address for it is 192.168.1.1.
> 
> Its WAN interface is configured to connect to the primary network, with
> a static WAN IP address: 192.168.0.20. The MAC address for the D-Link is
> entered for that IP address in my Smoothwall config. The DNS entries are
> all correct on both routers, and when I connect to the D-Link with my
> laptop, I can access the Internet through the primary router. All is
> okay here.
> 
> I would *really* like to be able to access systems from the wireless LAN
> on the primary network. My desktop is wired into the 192.168.0.1 LAN,
> but my laptop connects wirelessly on 192.168.1.1. I would love to be
> able to SSH/Remote X to my desktop from my laptop, and also access other
> services/servers on my primary LAN.
> 
> I have tried forwarding ports from the 192.168.1.1 LAN to the WAN IP
> (192.168.0.20), hoping the Smoothwall router would then broadcast those
> forwarded requests into its LAN, but to no avail. 
> 
> What am I missing here?
> 
> Thanks,
> Aaron Bockover
> 
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