Re: Name resolution across routers - Possible?
- From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:00:37 -0700
On 4 Oct 2005 15:59:40 -0700, dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>I have two linksys routers, one being a cable modem router and the
>other a wireless router.
Oh neato. A mystery question. Well, Linksys doesn't make a cable
modem router combination that's not wireless. Therefore, I can only
guess that you have a Linksys cable modem but no router. That would
be a BEFCMU10. Linksys makes several wireless routers so it's
probably a BEFW11s4 or a WRT54G. How close did I guess? Do I get a
gold star if I guess right?
>A couple of machines in the house are
>wireless, and the rest are hardwired.
A couple means two, so I decode that to mean that you have two
wireless machines and probably two or more hardwired machines. More
gold stars please.
>Everyone uses the cable mode as their default gateway, and they all
>share the 192.168.1.XXX address space.
Well, that's odd because the cable modem doesn't use the IP address
for routeing, only management. What's the IP address of the default
gateway and which box has the DHCP server?
>Machines on the wired portion can see each other by name, but those on
>the wireless (or vice versa) cannot.
I'll assume that they're all using Windoze XP Home. Failure to "see"
each other can be due to a variety of causes. The usual culprits are
failure to configure the Windoze Firewall for "file and print sharing"
on the exceptions tab or different workgroup names.
Another common problem is that if by some chance, your wireless router
is a WRT54G, it has a feature called "access point protection" located
on the Wireless -> Advanced setting page. It's really client radio
protection and will keep wireless clients from seeing each other.
Uncheck the box.
>I've resorted to static IPs and
>hosts files, but I'm wondering if there's a better way short of going
>to a broadcast protocol like NetBEUI or installing a server machine
>with DHCP and DNS.
"Resorted"???? Does that mean it works with static IP's?
Just for fun, put things back the way they're suppose to be (i.e. DHCP
and no NETBEUI) and try to ping each machine. If you can't access by
NETBIOS name, try it this way:
Start -> Run -> cmd <enter>
\\NETBIOS_NAME
or
\\192.168.1.xxx
Both should show a list of available shares.
>Is there anything I can do so that everyone can have dynamic IPs but
>still see other by name across the two different routers?
Well, that largely depends on where you have the clients plugged in.
If you have the wired clients plugged into the first router (the one
that may or may not have a cable modem inside), then those clients
will never see the wireless clients because they're going to them via
the WAN port on the 2nd mystery router. You can open up one machine
by using the DMZ feature, but not the others.
>If you need any more info, just let me know!
That's an understatment.
Hint: If you don't supply model numbers, IP numbers, exact
description, and details, you're going to get a vague and probably
insulting answer (like this). If it helps, try to organize your
question like this:
1. What problem are you trying to solve?
2. What do you have to work with?
3. What have you done so far and what was the result?
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