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#1 2007-08-30 10:50 pm
- Mook
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Wired router to Wireless router: Access Question
So my landlord provides internet, but doesn't have a wireless router set up. Anyway, I used my own wireless router as a wireless access point. I basically just followed some step by step guide found here:
http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/ … outer.html
From a usage perspective everything seems to be working perfectly.
I want to turn on WPA security and change the password, etc. but the problem is I can't get access to the wireless router.
I assigned it a static LAN ip of 192.168.1.248 (the wired router that feeds it has an ip of 192.168.1.1). If i try to put "192.168.1.248" into a browser it just times out.
suggestions?
Last edited by Mook (2007-08-30 10:54 pm)
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#2 2007-08-31 12:56 am
- jb
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Re: Wired router to Wireless router: Access Question
Are you sure the router has a web interface, and not a third party application you need to launch to configure it?
Can you ping 192.168.1.248?
They say that the most secure computer is the one not connected to the internet.
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#3 2007-08-31 1:14 am
- Mook
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Re: Wired router to Wireless router: Access Question
I've been playing around with this and I think I've got something else that works...i'm not sure anymore that my first configuration ever really worked at all, i think as soon as multiple computers started requesting IP things got hairy
hopefully I've got it running, but if not i'll come back and update this post
thanks for the help
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#4 2007-08-31 9:30 am
- Dunkin'
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Re: Wired router to Wireless router: Access Question
Yeah. One router at a time doing the DHCP serving.
You can access your wireless router with an ethernet cable connected between your computer and the wireless router's WAN port. Then the IP address (192.168.1.248) will work.
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#5 2007-08-31 11:39 am
- Mook
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Re: Wired router to Wireless router: Access Question
Dunkin' it doesn't work, and it was because I changed the subnet mask
also, what I thought was working was not. It seems to wokr for a little while and then craps out. I think I'm going to start over from the begining, anyone done this before and feel like walking me through it?
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#6 2007-09-01 10:29 am
- Dunkin'
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Re: Wired router to Wireless router: Access Question
Talk with the landlord.
He must limit the DHCP IP addresses so that the address you use is not available to him. For example: You will use 192.168.1.248 so he must limit his router from using any number higher than 192.168.1.247.
Then configure your wireless router as described in the linked article in your first post. Study the diagram.
Do not connect the ethernet cable from the landlord's router to your WAN port. Use any LAN port to connect to the landlord's network.
Also be sure that you have a firewall on each computer on your network. Security will be important.
Now, computers serviced by router B (directly connected by Ethernet cable or else connected wirelessly) will be assigned DHCP by router A, within the 192.168.0.* network, together with DNS assignments. Router B is just another IP node on A's network. Any LAN computer can access and configure router B by accessing it as 192.168.0.233. All computers will be on the same network subnet and so they will have access to each other for file and printer sharing.
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