Cannot connect from wired to wireless

Hi,
I've got a cable modem ->FW (w/NAT) ->Hub (3Com)
Off the hub I have 2 PCs, both running XP with no fw, and the Linksys
WRT54G.
Off the Linksys I have one PC using the Linksys USB wireless adapter and a
couple of laptops using built in or Linksys PCMCIA adapters.
The FW (IPcop 1.4) is also the DHCP server for my network.
The wired network is 192.168.0.x/24 with the Linksys at .21.
The Liksys uses its own DHCP and the wireless side of thins is
192.168.1.x/24 with the Linksys itself at .1 and the DHCP range starting at
..100.

I'd like all of them to reside in the same workgroup so that I can access
files off of any of them from any of them. This does not work.

From the Linkys' ping command I can ping the wired PCs, but not the wireless
ones. Is there a way to set the Linksys up as just a bridge or something,
passing the DHCP request to the FW/DHCP server and keeping everything in the
192.169.0x range? Or is there a some other way of doing things? I've
looked at every single setting in the darn thing and cannot figure this out,
and the Linksys web site isn't of much help.

Otto

I would not be so suprised that the linksys site is not alot of help, you
are really making your netwrk more complicated then it should ne.

Let me see if I can suggest something easier.

connect the cable modem into your Linksys router. Take the Hub away. Connect
your wired PCs into your Linksys router. Take IPcop out, or atleast disable
it as you DHCP server and let your Linksys router handle that. Place your 2
wired computers into your routers DMZ and that will allow them to bypass the
routers built in firewall.

Your network is a gloodge, and it needs to be cleaned up. You have the
cababilities to do everything you want with the one piece of Linksys
hardware.

Robert...

"Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9WMKd.66189$Tf5.23731@lakeread03...
> Hi,
> I've got a cable modem ->FW (w/NAT) ->Hub (3Com)
> Off the hub I have 2 PCs, both running XP with no fw, and the Linksys
> WRT54G.
> Off the Linksys I have one PC using the Linksys USB wireless adapter and a
> couple of laptops using built in or Linksys PCMCIA adapters.
> The FW (IPcop 1.4) is also the DHCP server for my network.
> The wired network is 192.168.0.x/24 with the Linksys at .21.
> The Liksys uses its own DHCP and the wireless side of thins is
> 192.168.1.x/24 with the Linksys itself at .1 and the DHCP range starting
> at .100.
>
> I'd like all of them to reside in the same workgroup so that I can access
> files off of any of them from any of them. This does not work.
>
> From the Linkys' ping command I can ping the wired PCs, but not the
> wireless ones. Is there a way to set the Linksys up as just a bridge or
> something, passing the DHCP request to the FW/DHCP server and keeping
> everything in the 192.169.0x range? Or is there a some other way of doing
> things? I've looked at every single setting in the darn thing and cannot
> figure this out, and the Linksys web site isn't of much help.
>
> Otto
>

Hi Robert
Well, that is exactly the problem. I cannot simplify my network, it is like
it is for a reason. I have quite a few more devices that needs to hook up
to the network.

All I need the Linksys to do is to act as a bridge, transparently translate
from the wired to the wireless and back again, so that to the rest of the
network it appears as if it was wired. I have a Cisco Aironet 1200 at work
that will do just that, but I really cannot afford to buy one of those for
my home network.

(This is all just a convenience thing. I have a teenager living at the
other end of the house, and I gave him an old computer and bought the
Linksys so that he can have internet access from his room. Crawling through
the attic pulling Cat5e from my office/computer lab to his room does not
appeal to me. But then he starts asking me to burn CD's for him, and moving
MP3 files via a thumbdrive gets old really fast. The Linksys isn't, and
will probably never be, the center of my network.)


"Robert Jacobs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:riPKd.629$wM.566@trnddc05...
>I would not be so suprised that the linksys site is not alot of help, you
>are really making your netwrk more complicated then it should ne.
>
> Let me see if I can suggest something easier.
>
> connect the cable modem into your Linksys router. Take the Hub away.
> Connect your wired PCs into your Linksys router. Take IPcop out, or
> atleast disable it as you DHCP server and let your Linksys router handle
> that. Place your 2 wired computers into your routers DMZ and that will
> allow them to bypass the routers built in firewall.
>
> Your network is a gloodge, and it needs to be cleaned up. You have the
> cababilities to do everything you want with the one piece of Linksys
> hardware.
>
> Robert...
>
> "Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:9WMKd.66189$Tf5.23731@lakeread03...
>> Hi,
>> I've got a cable modem ->FW (w/NAT) ->Hub (3Com)
>> Off the hub I have 2 PCs, both running XP with no fw, and the Linksys
>> WRT54G.
>> Off the Linksys I have one PC using the Linksys USB wireless adapter and
>> a couple of laptops using built in or Linksys PCMCIA adapters.
>> The FW (IPcop 1.4) is also the DHCP server for my network.
>> The wired network is 192.168.0.x/24 with the Linksys at .21.
>> The Liksys uses its own DHCP and the wireless side of thins is
>> 192.168.1.x/24 with the Linksys itself at .1 and the DHCP range starting
>> at .100.
>>
>> I'd like all of them to reside in the same workgroup so that I can access
>> files off of any of them from any of them. This does not work.
>>
>> From the Linkys' ping command I can ping the wired PCs, but not the
>> wireless ones. Is there a way to set the Linksys up as just a bridge or
>> something, passing the DHCP request to the FW/DHCP server and keeping
>> everything in the 192.169.0x range? Or is there a some other way of
>> doing things? I've looked at every single setting in the darn thing and
>> cannot figure this out, and the Linksys web site isn't of much help.
>>
>> Otto
>>
>
>

ok, that is a bit more explanation. So, how are you connecting to the net?
The problem I am seeing is that you have no router connected to your hub for
your wired network, just using IPcop. Am I right?


"Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:CmQKd.68083$Tf5.48859@lakeread03...
> Hi Robert
> Well, that is exactly the problem. I cannot simplify my network, it is
> like it is for a reason. I have quite a few more devices that needs to
> hook up to the network.
>
> All I need the Linksys to do is to act as a bridge, transparently
> translate from the wired to the wireless and back again, so that to the
> rest of the network it appears as if it was wired. I have a Cisco Aironet
> 1200 at work that will do just that, but I really cannot afford to buy one
> of those for my home network.
>
> (This is all just a convenience thing. I have a teenager living at the
> other end of the house, and I gave him an old computer and bought the
> Linksys so that he can have internet access from his room. Crawling
> through the attic pulling Cat5e from my office/computer lab to his room
> does not appeal to me. But then he starts asking me to burn CD's for him,
> and moving MP3 files via a thumbdrive gets old really fast. The Linksys
> isn't, and will probably never be, the center of my network.)
>
>
> "Robert Jacobs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:riPKd.629$wM.566@trnddc05...
>>I would not be so suprised that the linksys site is not alot of help, you
>>are really making your netwrk more complicated then it should ne.
>>
>> Let me see if I can suggest something easier.
>>
>> connect the cable modem into your Linksys router. Take the Hub away.
>> Connect your wired PCs into your Linksys router. Take IPcop out, or
>> atleast disable it as you DHCP server and let your Linksys router handle
>> that. Place your 2 wired computers into your routers DMZ and that will
>> allow them to bypass the routers built in firewall.
>>
>> Your network is a gloodge, and it needs to be cleaned up. You have the
>> cababilities to do everything you want with the one piece of Linksys
>> hardware.
>>
>> Robert...
>>
>> "Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:9WMKd.66189$Tf5.23731@lakeread03...
>>> Hi,
>>> I've got a cable modem ->FW (w/NAT) ->Hub (3Com)
>>> Off the hub I have 2 PCs, both running XP with no fw, and the Linksys
>>> WRT54G.
>>> Off the Linksys I have one PC using the Linksys USB wireless adapter and
>>> a couple of laptops using built in or Linksys PCMCIA adapters.
>>> The FW (IPcop 1.4) is also the DHCP server for my network.
>>> The wired network is 192.168.0.x/24 with the Linksys at .21.
>>> The Liksys uses its own DHCP and the wireless side of thins is
>>> 192.168.1.x/24 with the Linksys itself at .1 and the DHCP range starting
>>> at .100.
>>>
>>> I'd like all of them to reside in the same workgroup so that I can
>>> access files off of any of them from any of them. This does not work.
>>>
>>> From the Linkys' ping command I can ping the wired PCs, but not the
>>> wireless ones. Is there a way to set the Linksys up as just a bridge
>>> or something, passing the DHCP request to the FW/DHCP server and keeping
>>> everything in the 192.169.0x range? Or is there a some other way of
>>> doing things? I've looked at every single setting in the darn thing and
>>> cannot figure this out, and the Linksys web site isn't of much help.
>>>
>>> Otto
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Yes, you're right. The Firewall is the router between my hub and the
internet. It gets a DHCP address from Cox Cable, and NATs it to
192.168.0.x/24. Then to the hub and my "normal" PC and my wife's PC. Then
from the hub I got the Linksys hanging off a port and the kid's PC at the
other end of the wireless.

(I also have a Cisco 5505 hanging off the hub, then off of that five Cisco
25xx routers, a Cisco 2950 switch, two Nortel switches, a Livingston
terminal server, and another 3Com hub. All of which may at any given time
be hooked directly to the first hub, depending on what I'm trying to learn.
Add a couple of Linux boxes, at least two - but often three - laptops, all
with wireless capabilities, and it all becomes quite a mess. Which in part
explains why I don't want another DHCP server stirred into this brew. Oh,
the IPcop is also my NTP server, and I'm considering making it my internal
DNS server too


"Robert Jacobs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ezQKd.6029$RI.5269@trnddc06...
> ok, that is a bit more explanation. So, how are you connecting to the net?
> The problem I am seeing is that you have no router connected to your hub
> for your wired network, just using IPcop. Am I right?
>
>
> "Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:CmQKd.68083$Tf5.48859@lakeread03...
>> Hi Robert
>> Well, that is exactly the problem. I cannot simplify my network, it is
>> like it is for a reason. I have quite a few more devices that needs to
>> hook up to the network.
>>
>> All I need the Linksys to do is to act as a bridge, transparently
>> translate from the wired to the wireless and back again, so that to the
>> rest of the network it appears as if it was wired. I have a Cisco
>> Aironet 1200 at work that will do just that, but I really cannot afford
>> to buy one of those for my home network.
>>
>> (This is all just a convenience thing. I have a teenager living at the
>> other end of the house, and I gave him an old computer and bought the
>> Linksys so that he can have internet access from his room. Crawling
>> through the attic pulling Cat5e from my office/computer lab to his room
>> does not appeal to me. But then he starts asking me to burn CD's for
>> him, and moving MP3 files via a thumbdrive gets old really fast. The
>> Linksys isn't, and will probably never be, the center of my network.)
>>
>>
>> "Robert Jacobs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:riPKd.629$wM.566@trnddc05...
>>>I would not be so suprised that the linksys site is not alot of help, you
>>>are really making your netwrk more complicated then it should ne.
>>>
>>> Let me see if I can suggest something easier.
>>>
>>> connect the cable modem into your Linksys router. Take the Hub away.
>>> Connect your wired PCs into your Linksys router. Take IPcop out, or
>>> atleast disable it as you DHCP server and let your Linksys router handle
>>> that. Place your 2 wired computers into your routers DMZ and that will
>>> allow them to bypass the routers built in firewall.
>>>
>>> Your network is a gloodge, and it needs to be cleaned up. You have the
>>> cababilities to do everything you want with the one piece of Linksys
>>> hardware.
>>>
>>> Robert...
>>>
>>> "Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:9WMKd.66189$Tf5.23731@lakeread03...
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I've got a cable modem ->FW (w/NAT) ->Hub (3Com)
>>>> Off the hub I have 2 PCs, both running XP with no fw, and the Linksys
>>>> WRT54G.
>>>> Off the Linksys I have one PC using the Linksys USB wireless adapter
>>>> and a couple of laptops using built in or Linksys PCMCIA adapters.
>>>> The FW (IPcop 1.4) is also the DHCP server for my network.
>>>> The wired network is 192.168.0.x/24 with the Linksys at .21.
>>>> The Liksys uses its own DHCP and the wireless side of thins is
>>>> 192.168.1.x/24 with the Linksys itself at .1 and the DHCP range
>>>> starting at .100.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like all of them to reside in the same workgroup so that I can
>>>> access files off of any of them from any of them. This does not work.
>>>>
>>>> From the Linkys' ping command I can ping the wired PCs, but not the
>>>> wireless ones. Is there a way to set the Linksys up as just a bridge
>>>> or something, passing the DHCP request to the FW/DHCP server and
>>>> keeping everything in the 192.169.0x range? Or is there a some other
>>>> way of doing things? I've looked at every single setting in the darn
>>>> thing and cannot figure this out, and the Linksys web site isn't of
>>>> much help.
>>>>
>>>> Otto
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

the problem with that, and I see no way of fixing it in your current config,
is that the Linksys router is not being seen by your firewall software/DHCP
server as an internal part of your network, but as say.....part of the
internet, and you have your firwall software enabled to block external
incomming network comunications, which is what a firewall is used for. So I
see no way of fixing the problem in your current config. You have to bring
the Linksys router into your network side of your DHCP software.

Robert....


"Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:lARKd.68132$Tf5.4128@lakeread03...
> Yes, you're right. The Firewall is the router between my hub and the
> internet. It gets a DHCP address from Cox Cable, and NATs it to
> 192.168.0.x/24. Then to the hub and my "normal" PC and my wife's PC.
> Then from the hub I got the Linksys hanging off a port and the kid's PC at
> the other end of the wireless.
>
> (I also have a Cisco 5505 hanging off the hub, then off of that five Cisco
> 25xx routers, a Cisco 2950 switch, two Nortel switches, a Livingston
> terminal server, and another 3Com hub. All of which may at any given
> time be hooked directly to the first hub, depending on what I'm trying to
> learn. Add a couple of Linux boxes, at least two - but often three -
> laptops, all with wireless capabilities, and it all becomes quite a mess.
> Which in part explains why I don't want another DHCP server stirred into
> this brew. Oh, the IPcop is also my NTP server, and I'm considering
> making it my internal DNS server too
>
>
> "Robert Jacobs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ezQKd.6029$RI.5269@trnddc06...
>> ok, that is a bit more explanation. So, how are you connecting to the
>> net? The problem I am seeing is that you have no router connected to your
>> hub for your wired network, just using IPcop. Am I right?
>>
>>
>> "Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:CmQKd.68083$Tf5.48859@lakeread03...
>>> Hi Robert
>>> Well, that is exactly the problem. I cannot simplify my network, it is
>>> like it is for a reason. I have quite a few more devices that needs to
>>> hook up to the network.
>>>
>>> All I need the Linksys to do is to act as a bridge, transparently
>>> translate from the wired to the wireless and back again, so that to the
>>> rest of the network it appears as if it was wired. I have a Cisco
>>> Aironet 1200 at work that will do just that, but I really cannot afford
>>> to buy one of those for my home network.
>>>
>>> (This is all just a convenience thing. I have a teenager living at the
>>> other end of the house, and I gave him an old computer and bought the
>>> Linksys so that he can have internet access from his room. Crawling
>>> through the attic pulling Cat5e from my office/computer lab to his room
>>> does not appeal to me. But then he starts asking me to burn CD's for
>>> him, and moving MP3 files via a thumbdrive gets old really fast. The
>>> Linksys isn't, and will probably never be, the center of my network.)
>>>
>>>
>>> "Robert Jacobs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:riPKd.629$wM.566@trnddc05...
>>>>I would not be so suprised that the linksys site is not alot of help,
>>>>you are really making your netwrk more complicated then it should ne.
>>>>
>>>> Let me see if I can suggest something easier.
>>>>
>>>> connect the cable modem into your Linksys router. Take the Hub away.
>>>> Connect your wired PCs into your Linksys router. Take IPcop out, or
>>>> atleast disable it as you DHCP server and let your Linksys router
>>>> handle that. Place your 2 wired computers into your routers DMZ and
>>>> that will allow them to bypass the routers built in firewall.
>>>>
>>>> Your network is a gloodge, and it needs to be cleaned up. You have the
>>>> cababilities to do everything you want with the one piece of Linksys
>>>> hardware.
>>>>
>>>> Robert...
>>>>
>>>> "Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>>> news:9WMKd.66189$Tf5.23731@lakeread03...
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I've got a cable modem ->FW (w/NAT) ->Hub (3Com)
>>>>> Off the hub I have 2 PCs, both running XP with no fw, and the Linksys
>>>>> WRT54G.
>>>>> Off the Linksys I have one PC using the Linksys USB wireless adapter
>>>>> and a couple of laptops using built in or Linksys PCMCIA adapters.
>>>>> The FW (IPcop 1.4) is also the DHCP server for my network.
>>>>> The wired network is 192.168.0.x/24 with the Linksys at .21.
>>>>> The Liksys uses its own DHCP and the wireless side of thins is
>>>>> 192.168.1.x/24 with the Linksys itself at .1 and the DHCP range
>>>>> starting at .100.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like all of them to reside in the same workgroup so that I can
>>>>> access files off of any of them from any of them. This does not work.
>>>>>
>>>>> From the Linkys' ping command I can ping the wired PCs, but not the
>>>>> wireless ones. Is there a way to set the Linksys up as just a bridge
>>>>> or something, passing the DHCP request to the FW/DHCP server and
>>>>> keeping everything in the 192.169.0x range? Or is there a some other
>>>>> way of doing things? I've looked at every single setting in the darn
>>>>> thing and cannot figure this out, and the Linksys web site isn't of
>>>>> much help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Otto
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Seems like you refuse to change your network so it will work both wired and
wireless together.. I would think either change it so it will work the way
you want, or spend the bucks and by the Aironet for home.
Your choice.. change things (free) or spends hundreds to do it, or just do
nothing and keep complaining....


Net Worker wrote:
> Hi Robert
> Well, that is exactly the problem. I cannot simplify my network, it
> is like it is for a reason. I have quite a few more devices that
> needs to hook up to the network.
>
> All I need the Linksys to do is to act as a bridge, transparently
> translate from the wired to the wireless and back again, so that to
> the rest of the network it appears as if it was wired. I have a
> Cisco Aironet 1200 at work that will do just that, but I really
> cannot afford to buy one of those for my home network.
>
> (This is all just a convenience thing. I have a teenager living at
> the other end of the house, and I gave him an old computer and bought
> the Linksys so that he can have internet access from his room. Crawling
> through the attic pulling Cat5e from my office/computer lab
> to his room does not appeal to me. But then he starts asking me to
> burn CD's for him, and moving MP3 files via a thumbdrive gets old
> really fast. The Linksys isn't, and will probably never be, the
> center of my network.)
>
> "Robert Jacobs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:riPKd.629$wM.566@trnddc05...
>> I would not be so suprised that the linksys site is not alot of
>> help, you are really making your netwrk more complicated then it
>> should ne. Let me see if I can suggest something easier.
>>
>> connect the cable modem into your Linksys router. Take the Hub away.
>> Connect your wired PCs into your Linksys router. Take IPcop out, or
>> atleast disable it as you DHCP server and let your Linksys router
>> handle that. Place your 2 wired computers into your routers DMZ and
>> that will allow them to bypass the routers built in firewall.
>>
>> Your network is a gloodge, and it needs to be cleaned up. You have
>> the cababilities to do everything you want with the one piece of
>> Linksys hardware.
>>
>> Robert...
>>
>> "Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:9WMKd.66189$Tf5.23731@lakeread03...
>>> Hi,
>>> I've got a cable modem ->FW (w/NAT) ->Hub (3Com)
>>> Off the hub I have 2 PCs, both running XP with no fw, and the
>>> Linksys WRT54G.
>>> Off the Linksys I have one PC using the Linksys USB wireless
>>> adapter and a couple of laptops using built in or Linksys PCMCIA
>>> adapters. The FW (IPcop 1.4) is also the DHCP server for my network.
>>> The wired network is 192.168.0.x/24 with the Linksys at .21.
>>> The Liksys uses its own DHCP and the wireless side of thins is
>>> 192.168.1.x/24 with the Linksys itself at .1 and the DHCP range
>>> starting at .100.
>>>
>>> I'd like all of them to reside in the same workgroup so that I can
>>> access files off of any of them from any of them. This does not
>>> work. From the Linkys' ping command I can ping the wired PCs, but not
>>> the
>>> wireless ones. Is there a way to set the Linksys up as just a
>>> bridge or something, passing the DHCP request to the FW/DHCP server
>>> and keeping everything in the 192.169.0x range? Or is there a some
>>> other way of doing things? I've looked at every single setting in
>>> the darn thing and cannot figure this out, and the Linksys web site
>>> isn't of much help. Otto

"Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>All I need the Linksys to do is to act as a bridge, transparently translate
>from the wired to the wireless and back again, so that to the rest of the
>network it appears as if it was wired.

It can do that. The problem is to get the right routing, which
I can't figure out how to accomplish with the standard Linksys
firmware for a WRT54G.

Adding routing that will allow connection to other parts of the
LAN is easy. Go to the route table entry form and add a route
to, for example, 192.168.0.0 with a netmask of 255.255.0.0, and
bingo every 192.168.x.x address will be correctly routed between
the wireless and wired LAN. That is useful if, for example, the
wired LAN is all on one subnet, say 192.168.0.x and the wireless
net is all assigned to a different subnet, such as 192.168.1.x.

However, I've not figured out how to add a default route to the
ethernet LAN ports on a WRT54G, as opposed to the WAN/Internet
port.

Instead, I've used both the Satori and HyperWRT firmware
upgrades, and they both do that with ease (enable telnet, telnet
in and add the command). With Satori that can be made to
survive a reboot by using the web menu to save the startup.
With Hyperwrt fireware one puts those statements into the
startup file, then saves it.

But without a default route with your firewall as the gateway,
no Internet access is possible.

>(This is all just a convenience thing. I have a teenager living at the
>other end of the house, and I gave him an old computer and bought the
>Linksys so that he can have internet access from his room. Crawling through
>the attic pulling Cat5e from my office/computer lab to his room does not
>appeal to me. But then he starts asking me to burn CD's for him, and moving
>MP3 files via a thumbdrive gets old really fast. The Linksys isn't, and
>will probably never be, the center of my network.)

Personally, I'd use a wired net for that. I'd bet that teenager
wouldn't have nearly the hesitation at pulling CAT5 that you do!
(Yeah, scary... but that is *nothing* compared to what he does
when you aren't looking! Let him do the hands on part of
installing the whole thing, right down to the jacks. He'll
probably take a lot of pride later on in pure ownership
rights...)

>>> I've got a cable modem ->FW (w/NAT) ->Hub (3Com)
>>> Off the hub I have 2 PCs, both running XP with no fw, and the Linksys
>>> WRT54G.
>>> Off the Linksys I have one PC using the Linksys USB wireless adapter and
>>> a couple of laptops using built in or Linksys PCMCIA adapters.
>>> The FW (IPcop 1.4) is also the DHCP server for my network.
>>> The wired network is 192.168.0.x/24 with the Linksys at .21.
>>> The Liksys uses its own DHCP and the wireless side of thins is
>>> 192.168.1.x/24 with the Linksys itself at .1 and the DHCP range starting
>>> at .100.

Unless you specifically add a route, nothing the wireless side can
access anything with a 192.168.0.x address.

What does the WRT54G's route table look like?

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) (E-Mail Removed)

Hi Robert,
The FW (IPcop) has two interfaces. A Red and a Green. The Red interface is
the Internet, and the Green interface is inside, or protected.
The 3Com hub is hanging off the Green, and as such is seen as being
internal. This works pretty well, everything hooked to the hub can get to
the Internet without any problems. The Linksys is connected to the hub via
its WAN port, and has a static IP on the same network as the rest of the hub
connections. (192.168.0.21/24, the DHCP range is from .100 to .200) I can
ping the Linksys from the FW. And from any other 192.168.0.x hosts.

The wireless side of the Linksys is on a different network. 192.169.1.x/24
I can NOT ping the Linksys itself at 192.168.1.1 nor any of the hosts on the
wireless side. And now it appears to me that this is probably a routing
problem. I'm going about this the wrong way. Troubleshoot by pinging the
router interfaces, first the near, then the far. Resolve one at a time.
I'm forgetting my basics here

Still, the basic question is; Can the Linksys act just like a wire
replacement? Be a transparent media that just passes the packets both ways
without doing anything to them?

Thanks for all your suggestions and help. Even if we don't resolve this
one, I've already learned a few things.

Thanks

Otto

"Robert Jacobs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> the problem with that, and I see no way of fixing it in your current
> config, is that the Linksys router is not being seen by your firewall
> software/DHCP server as an internal part of your network, but as
> say.....part of the internet, and you have your firwall software enabled
> to block external incomming network comunications, which is what a
> firewall is used for. So I see no way of fixing the problem in your
> current config. You have to bring the Linksys router into your network
> side of your DHCP software.
>
> Robert....
>
>
> "Net Worker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:lARKd.68132$Tf5.4128@lakeread03...
>> Yes, you're right. The Firewall is the router between my hub and the
>> internet. It gets a DHCP address from Cox Cable, and NATs it to
>> 192.168.0.x/24. Then to the hub and my "normal" PC and my wife's PC.
>> Then from the hub I got the Linksys hanging off a port and the kid's PC
>> at the other end of the wireless.
>>

I'm sorry, but I don't buy this. I cannot change the network. It is like
it is because I need it this way.
I asked a fairly simple question; Can the Linksys act as a bridge, passing
traffic in both directions without altering it? Like the Aironet can. That
is in essence a very simple yes/no question. If you know the answer. I
don't, and have been unable to find out on my own. So I thought I'd ask
here. If the answer is yes, I'd like to know how. If the answer is no, I
will just move on with my life and try to accomplish things differently.
This is not a life altering issue in any way. It will probably be a heck of
a lot cheaper and easier to just buy the kind a CD burner.

However, geeks like to figure things out, and I'm curious.

I am also aware that the Linksys is a "home network" device, and that what I
got here is probably pushing the definition of "home network" a little bit.
One of the reasons I cannot put everything on the Linksys is that I use
sniffers a lot, and that is much easier done on a hub than a switch, and
impossible on the Linksys since port mirroring isn't built into it. (Then
again, I'm no expert on Linksys so maybe it is

All in all, I'm not overly happy with your implication that I'm some
arrogant little b*stard that is going to keep complaining until the world
turns my way. I will not. I will just *make* it turn my way

Otto

"Peter Pan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Seems like you refuse to change your network so it will work both wired
> and wireless together.. I would think either change it so it will work the
> way you want, or spend the bucks and by the Aironet for home.
> Your choice.. change things (free) or spends hundreds to do it, or just do
> nothing and keep complaining....
>