[TriLUG] [Slightly OT] Wi-Fi Consultant?

[paul]

> If by "netblock", you mean subnet mask, yeah, they were different.  The
> cable modem went directly into the wireless router.  So the WAN
> ip/subnet mask was different than the LAN.

Unless you have the "wireless router" plugged into the "lan router" so
that your lan machines can filter traffic from a single IP, you would
do just as well to turn dhcp off on your "wireless router" and plug it
from switched port 1 on the "wireless router" into the "lan router" on
any port (instead of plugging it from "WAN" port on the "wireless
router" into the "lan router"). This way there is only one gateway,
one subnet, and one dhcp server to deal with. You can still do mac
address filtering and wep key auth/wap from the wireless router and
see if you have the same issues. The "wireless router" would be acting
like a switch at this point.

In other words, take some stuff out of the equation. Hope this isn't
too confusing to read.