Sharing

[DonP]

I have a network with two workstations (running Windows 2000 Pro) hard-wired to a Netgear wireless router, and a laptop (running XP Pro) connected wirelessly to the same router. The router is set up at 192.168.0.2 and has DHCP enabled. One of the workstations also has a D-Link wireless network card through which comes the Internet connection from another wireless network and is set to 192.168.0.1, which it sets itself to when I enable Internet sharing. The remote system is using 192.168.1.1.

However, as soon as I enable sharing, I lose connection. Advice? Thanks.

Don

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[dput]

The configuration you are describing seems to be a little strange. At the minimum, it seems that you would have to set the PC with the wireless card up to be a router, to allow your 2 networks to talk to each other and to know how to traverse the connections. I am not sure why you are trying to set it up in this fashion. It just seems odd to me.

Dan

 

[jamesbird]

Ditto - sounds a bit strange - I think the problem you have is that the PC connected to 2 routers is also trying to run ICS, it therefore is pitting it's own DHCP server with the Netgear router and losing. If you need to link to the internet via the wireless card, I think you'll have to turn on ICS, AND set the Netgear router to 'access point' only.
BUT the wireless card in the PC should have it's address set by the internet router, and therefore should be in the 192.168.1.x range - Pay attention to the 'share this connection' I'm thinking you'e set up sharing on the wrong one.
All the best
James

 

[DonP]

Thanks. That's what I was wondering as it seemed odd to me too. There used to be a server (Windows Server 2003) set up with the DHCP and all was working but it is out of the system temporarily. In order to be able to access and administer the Netgear router, I understood that its own DHCP needed to be enabled. I am a computer professional but not a wireless network one.

Just to be clear (I probably used incorrect terminology), there is only one router. It is the D-Link wireless network card that receives the Internet connection from a remote system in another nearby building.

Don

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[jamesbird]

Can't you connect the laptop to the same wireless network as the 'double networked' PC and do away with the local router? If you need the extra complication - The 'double' PC's wireless card should be granted it's address or at least be a static addres in the same range as the remote system i.e. 192.168.1.x. You've got to get that right first.
As for your local network, if you've got connection sharing enabled on the wired port of the 'double networked' pc it'll be fighting the DHCP server on the local router, AND if you'r running connection sharing on the 'double' PC you dont need a 2nd router. Log into the local router and see if you can configure it as an access point only (it'll then use the 'double' to generate IP addresses and pass them on to the wireless laptop) If you can do this you'll need to give the local router a fixed IP address, say 192.168.0.200 or else you'll loose track of it.
Keep the faith
James