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Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page. Note: The following is only a text archive! To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net Pages:1 Wireless Switch.......?(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: nelo Like a wireless router but just a switch, does it exist? So my office network is pretty simple - Netopia router spits out the ip addresses to networked machines ala DHCP in addition 2 Linksys wireless routers provide wireless access and there lies the problem. So say one machine sits plugged neatly into the Netopia and my laptop is on the wireless, then the wired machine cannot see my laptop because the wireless router has it's own DHCP. In effect where I'm going - is there such a thing as a wireless switch that would have wep authentication but still allow connected clients to obtain ip addresses from the parent dhcp server? Or is such a thing impossible. Thanks in advance. Posted by: Ethereal_Dragon The way you are set up is not good. It is NOT a good idea to have 2 DHCP servers on the same subnet in the same LAN area. What you are describing is a wireless access point. Yes, they exist, but you aready have 2 of them in your network. If it is ok for all of the machines in your network to be in the same sub-net, then go to the config page for each of the wireless routers, and DISABLE DHCP on them. Let the Netopia router handle DHCP for the whole network. This way, everyone is in the same subnet, and there won't be any duplicate addresses. Are you the IT person in your office? Posted by: nelo Hmm, I tried this already, it's possibly an issue with the DHCP on the Netopia but when I disable the DHCP on the linksys; machines connected through it do not receive an ip address, whats more with none of them able to do any tcp/ip'ing I cannot pull up the routers config page so it has to be defaulted. I am the IT guy in this office (begrudgingly just having a degree in CS does not a network expert make especially when your professional experience is online retail) and inherited the network on arrival. I had always assumed disabling DHCP on the wireless router would do the job but have failed to accomplish this feat. Can you think of any reason why it wouldn't be working? Posted by: Ethereal_Dragon I would have to assume that the Netopia router and the Linksys routers are possibly not in the same subnet. I can also only assume that you are using a private IP address scheme behind the router, either 10.x.x.x or 192.x.x.x? If so, list the IP addresses of each router & their subnet masks so we can make sure they are all in the same subnet. (they should be, otherwise it shouldn't work even with DHCP enabled on all the devices.)... It is ok to list them, IP's in those ranges are not routable on the internet, so it poses no security risk for your company. Posted by: Lorithad I've got this working at home with a SMC wireless router acting as an access point + switch to a D-link router. Give the soon to be access point a static IP address on the same subnet as the Router that will have the dhcp enabled. Set the gateway, DSN, and WINS server to the IP of the router with the dhcp. Disable the dhcp server on the access point. Plug the access point into the router. Don't use the WAN port on the access point anymore though. vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. PPC Management vB Easy Archive Final - Created by Xenon |