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1600n on two Separate lans

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MyNetW

Technical User
Jan 20, 2006
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CA
Hello

Recently for security and other reasons I made two separate lans. My modem is connected to a wired router and my other wireless router is connected to the wired one. I haven't disabled dhcp, and therefore changed the lan IP address of the wireless one. so my first router has an IP of 192.168.0.1 and my wireless has 192.168.2.1. So by doing this I have created separate lans/networks. The problem is when I connect my printer to one of the routers, the printer only works on the network associated with that router . I want to be able to share the printer among both routers. I don't know if I can assign more IP addresses, or add another nic card to the printer.

any help would be appreciated.
 
What kind of Routers are you using? Sounds like you need to add a static route on one of them (the one which does not have the printer connected) to say that all traffic destined for the Printers IP should be forwarded to it's network via whatever interface the printer is plugged into.

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