Re: [tlug] LAN, but no internet

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> Damn. Spoke just a little too soon. Late last night I thought I had
> solved my issue of linking a wireless router to a 4 port router, but it
> seems I'm not quite done.

Hi Dave,
I finally got my Buffalo Air Station connected, in the same
configuration as you, just last week. I bought it last September but my
first (30 minute) try at setup didn't work, and I had to wait this long
to get 2-3 hours to dedicate to looking at it properly.
I just typed up my notes here:

http://darrendev.blogspot.com/2011/01/buffalo-air-station-setup-on-existing.html

Different hardware but I imagine the required steps are the same. (I
wasted an hour not realizing the Buffalo's own restart wasn't enough,
and I needed to cycle the power before my pings would work.)

> Optical modem thingy -> 4 port router (192.168.0.1) -> wireless router
> (192.168.0.9) -> laptop (192.168.0.5)
> 
> Currently, the laptop default gateway is set to 192.168.0.1 (4 port),
> but that's not working. I tried setting it to 192.168.0.9 (wireless
> router), but that didn't fly either.

You would give 192.168.0.9 as the gateway. 192.168.0.1 is on a different
network and is not visible.

Why not use DHCP on your laptop, to simplify that half of things?

You have two 192.168.0.0 networks trying to co-exist here; that may
work, but if it turns out to be the problem (and you have the
configuration option) how about changing the wireless router to use
172.16.0.0 or 10.0.0.0? I find that helps me realize the networks are
different.


Darren


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