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Wireless LAN with a wire segment
Hi Folks,
will anyone try to help me with this. My home network looks like this: ASUS ADSLmodem/router 192.168.0.1 D-Link AP 900+ wireless access point IP 192.168.0.3 3x PC on D-Link wireless graphic adapters IP 192.168.0.4 - 192.168.0.6 So have NO ISC but rather a separate ASUS router Zonealarm FW rather than MS Firewall is installed on each PC everything ok - internet access, file and printers sharing ----- Two of the PCs are located in one room so it is easy to connect them by a twisted Ethernet wire. I want to do so to to facilitate the connection between them for mass volume tasks (back-ups etc). Now: 1) What IP adresses should I use for the Ethernet adapter the same segment ones 192.168.0.X or a different segment ones like 192.168.1.X ? 2) Can I bridge? or bind? the two adapters so that each of the two PCs has its one IP address if the same subnet IP can be used? 3) If different subnet IP must be used how do I decide which subnet is used to access the other computer if both wire and wireless route are available (e.g. for files sharing) and 4) the wire segment has no gateway, correct? So no IP address is willed in the properties of the ITC/IP protocol card as well ans no DNS IP is there. Thanks for any help or lead . |
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Wireless LAN with a wire segment
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"Proki" wrote: Hi Folks, will anyone try to help me with this. My home network looks like this: ASUS ADSLmodem/router 192.168.0.1 D-Link AP 900+ wireless access point IP 192.168.0.3 3x PC on D-Link wireless graphic adapters IP 192.168.0.4 - 192.168.0.6 So have NO ISC but rather a separate ASUS router Zonealarm FW rather than MS Firewall is installed on each PC everything ok - internet access, file and printers sharing ----- Two of the PCs are located in one room so it is easy to connect them by a twisted Ethernet wire. I want to do so to to facilitate the connection between them for mass volume tasks (back-ups etc). Now: 1) What IP adresses should I use for the Ethernet adapter the same segment ones 192.168.0.X or a different segment ones like 192.168.1.X ? 2) Can I bridge? or bind? the two adapters so that each of the two PCs has its one IP address if the same subnet IP can be used? 3) If different subnet IP must be used how do I decide which subnet is used to access the other computer if both wire and wireless route are available (e.g. for files sharing) and 4) the wire segment has no gateway, correct? So no IP address is willed in the properties of the ITC/IP protocol card as well ans no DNS IP is there. Thanks for any help or lead . 1. With two independent network adapters, use a different subnet for each, like 192.168.0.x for wireless and 192.168.1.x for wired. 2. Yes, you can bridge the wireless and wired network adapters so that each PC has only one IP address. However, I don't know how you could then control which adapter to use for fire transfers between the computers. 3. Here's a method that might make access to the other computer always use the wired connection, but I haven't tested it: a. Open the Network Connections folder. b. Click Advanced | Advanced Settings. c. Under Connections, click the up/down arrows as necessary to put the wired connection first in the list. Here's a method that I know will work: refer to the other computer using its wired IP address, not its computer name. For example, use \\192.168.1.2 instead of \\computer. 4. The wired segment doesn't need a gateway, because it doesn't connect to any subnet other than its own. It doesn't need DNS, either, since it doesn't connect to the Internet. -- Best Wishes, Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking) Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program http://mvp.support.microsoft.com |
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