Setting up a Wireless AP.

[SurrealZA]

Hi Guys,

Sorry if this is in the wrong section but I thought it would be appropriate, anyway I was wondering if anyone can help me with this.

I have a D-Link DI-LB604 Dual Balancing router, with 2 ADSL modems connected to the 2 WAN ports. Everything is working fine in that department.

However, the Dlink router is not wireless, so I need to setup a wireless access point for it, so what I have done is I have a Netgear DG834G wireless adsl router which I am not using - so I want to turn that into the Wireless AP. So I connected it via ethernet to the Dlink and now I connected my laptop via wireless to the Netgear router, but there is no internet connectivity, so obviously the Dlink and Netgear are not talking to each other properly. I have made sure that the subnet masks are the same.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

 

[quik]

Connect the two routers using one lan interface on each (Not the WAN interface), then give the Netgear router an IP address on the same subnet as the D-Link router, disable the DHCP server on the Netgear and enable the DHCP on the D-Link. Doing it this way removes routing from the netgear and basically makes it act as an AP only.

 

[SurrealZA]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply - When you say give the router the same IP Address on the same subnet, do you mean give them both the same Subnet Mask (255.255.255.0) or do you mean both a subnet mask and IP, is there an option to assign the Netgear an IP in the WebUI?

 

[Smooth Criminal]

The subnet mask just tells you which digits in the IP address are not allowed to change.
So if your router has an IP of 192.168.0.1
and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0,
then it means that all IPs in the range 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.254 will be on the same subnet (0). Each 255 blocks you from changing any of the corresponding digits in the IP range. A subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 would make 168 your subnet, allowing you to issue IPs in the 192.168.x.x - 192.168.y.y range.

 

[quik]

Yes, same subnet would imply same mask. I did not say give them the same IP addresses thought, that would not work, so if one is 192.168.0.1, the other would be 192.168.0.2 or whatever. I'd suggest you go stdy up on TCP/IP a bit.

Yes, there will be somewhere in the Netgear webui where you can assign IP addresses.

 

[quik]

The subnet mask just tells you which digits in the IP address are not allowed to change.
So if your router has an IP of 192.168.0.1
and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0,
then it means that all IPs in the range 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.254 will be on the same subnet (0). Each 255 blocks you from changing any of the corresponding digits in the IP range. A subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 would make 168 your subnet, allowing you to issue IPs in the 192.168.x.x - 192.168.y.y range.

It doesn't just tell you which digits can change, it determines your network and broadcast addresses, it segragates your network, it is used in routing traffic.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

It doesn't just tell you which digits can change, it determines your network and broadcast addresses, it segragates your network, it is used in routing traffic.

Poor choice of words, granted It's what he needed to know for his application though.

 

[SurrealZA]

Thanks guys I got it sorted.

I was being a bit idiotic. I had the IP of the AP/Netgear router the same as the Dlink - 192.168.0.1/ Changed it to 196.169.0.2 and it worked.

Thanks for the help.

 

[gregmcc]

Thanks guys I got it sorted.

I was being a bit idiotic. I had the IP of the AP/Netgear router the same as the Dlink - 192.168.0.1/ Changed it to 196.169.0.2 and it worked.

Thanks for the help.

I hope thats a typo? You can't use a publicly routable internet address!

Don't you mean 192.168.0.2?