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Wired router and connect another Wireless to it.

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EzLogic

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Aug 21, 2001
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At one of our stores, we have a normal Router running DHCP using comcast and/or SBC DSL

Router A:

gateway: (ISP IP)
DNS: 255.255.255.0
IPs: 192.168.1.x

Now, i took a cable from Router A and pluged it in Router B (which is Wireless)

Router B:
Gateway (is the IP from the Router A)
DNS: 255.255.255.0
IPs: 10.1.10.x

if someone on Router B (wireless), can they access the PCs on Router A?

Will that jeopordize my internal network?

We put Router B for Hotspot and customers that come in.

Ali Koumaiha
Wireless Toyz
Farmington Hills, Michigan
 
Opposite, actually. In that configuration the wireless network can see the wired, but not vice versa. put the wired router inside the wireless to protect the wired users from the wireless.

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.
 
The configuration you have described will not work at all. Include any NAT or proxy services you're running.

BTW, this question more properly belongs in the TCP/IP forum.

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The stagehand's axiom: "Never lift what you can drag, never drag what you can roll, never roll what you can leave.
 
I'm using that configuration now and it works - I just want to confirm that there is no way for people on the wireless to access the PCs on the wired network.

In light of what LawnBoy pointed out, I'll repost in the TCP/IP area.
But I do know that configuration does work..




Ali Koumaiha
Wireless Toyz
Farmington Hills, Michigan
 
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