Comments on: Access point and router IP settings

By: marcola

marcola — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:04:59 +0000

You are getting the Invalid IP address error because you are using a 192.168.2.x Class C mask address and you are trying to use a gateway on another subnet 192.168.1.x and this is quite impossible.

Do as the others have suggested. Set DHCP on your wired router and run with it.

By: tvyoda

tvyoda — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:18:26 +0000

the hardware links are fine viz:

Modem====LinksyszBEFSR81====EG0801W====WAP

I recommend the following changes:

1. On the Linksys DSL router, setup DHCP with a limited number of assignable addresses. For example set the DHCP server IP address range 192.168.1.50 to 192.168.1.100. I assume the range 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.49 is adequate to use for your servers and other devices which may need manually assigned IP addresses.

2. I reset the WAP from router mode to standard Wireless Access Point. Then assign it a free manual IP address from the 192.168.1.2-49 range. The default gateway will then be the IP address of the Linksys router. You need to use this IP addres to access its web interface for configuration purposes.

3. Setup approptiate wireless secutity on the WAP.

You should now find that the laptop obtains a DHCP assigned IP address from the touter via the Wireless Access Point.

tvyoda

By: jameslaborde

jameslaborde — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:38:29 +0000

One small change: Enable DHCP only on the wired router. Only one DHCP server is needed and two on the same network address 192.168.1.xyz will cause problems. I suggest you enable DHCP only on your wired router. DHCP requests coming from your wireless clients will be forwarded to the wired router.