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

[paul]

On 5/25/05, paul <ppeeler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 


My apologies, I think I have made a mistake. I misread your
configuration from the earlier post.