I'm having an issue getting computers on my subnets to see the main
server on my primary network. I'm not sure if it's a subnet or net
mask issue. Any would be appreciated. I'm using subnets with NAT
enabled due to limited licenes on my firewall.

I have a basic lan that I've added two Linksys WRT54GL wireless
broadband routers on.

DHCP is enable on my Win 2K server with a scope of
192.168.100-200/255.255.255.0
Server address is 192.168.1.10/255.255.255.0, WAN Gateway is
192.168.1.1
DHCP is enable on both Linksys routers for their own respecive subnets.

WAP1:
LAN address 192.168.1.15.
Subnet range is 192.168.2.50-100/255.255.255.0, Gateway address is
192.168.2.1

WAP2:
LAN address 192.168.1.16
Subnet range is 192.168.3.50-100/255.255.255.0, Gateway address is
192.168.3.1

If I keep WAP1 & 2 in gateway mode, all computers can get to the
internet without issues but they cannot talk to any printers on the
network except for those on their own subnet. I can http to the
printers from my server on both subnets but cannot create ports to
connect to them.

If I set the Linksys WRT54GLs to "Router" mode, nothing works, I it
will only allow me set up routes between WAP1 & WAP2.

Thoughts, comments, but most of all would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
DP

On 22 Mar 2006 16:40:49 -0800 petersonde@adelphia.net wrote:

| I'm having an issue getting computers on my subnets to see the main
| server on my primary network. I'm not sure if it's a subnet or net
| mask issue. Any would be appreciated. I'm using subnets with NAT
| enabled due to limited licenes on my firewall.

Licensed commercial firewalls also can limit the number of hosts that
can be seen through NAT. If you don't want to "pay the piper" with a
commercial firewall, then maybe you need to build one from free open
source software (FOSS). Plenty of tools exist with BSD and Linux
systems to do this.


| I have a basic lan that I've added two Linksys WRT54GL wireless
| broadband routers on.

There is no such thing as a basic LAN.


| DHCP is enable on my Win 2K server with a scope of
| 192.168.100-200/255.255.255.0
| Server address is 192.168.1.10/255.255.255.0, WAN Gateway is
| 192.168.1.1
| DHCP is enable on both Linksys routers for their own respecive subnets.

I recommend a static address in the private range, at least for the
debugging process.


| WAP1:
| LAN address 192.168.1.15.
| Subnet range is 192.168.2.50-100/255.255.255.0, Gateway address is
| 192.168.2.1
|
| WAP2:
| LAN address 192.168.1.16
| Subnet range is 192.168.3.50-100/255.255.255.0, Gateway address is
| 192.168.3.1

Why the 50-100 range? The netmask shown implies 0-255 range, with
1-254 usable. Is the 50-100 just the DHCP range?


| If I keep WAP1 & 2 in gateway mode, all computers can get to the
| internet without issues but they cannot talk to any printers on the
| network except for those on their own subnet. I can http to the
| printers from my server on both subnets but cannot create ports to
| connect to them.

By "own subnet" you mean 192.168.2/24 and 192.168.3/24 respectively?

What netmask do WAP1 and WAP2 have for their LAN side interfaces?

What is the default gateway that WAP1 and WAP2 point to? The firewall?

Are all non-wireless printers directly connected to the 192.168.1/24 LAN?


| If I set the Linksys WRT54GLs to "Router" mode, nothing works, I it
| will only allow me set up routes between WAP1 & WAP2.
|
| Thoughts, comments, but most of all would be greatly appreciated

Need to see what comes out of the 192.168.1/24 LAN side of WAP1 and WAP2
when attempts to reach printers is done. Some diagnostic tool is needed
there.


|
| Thanks,
| DP
|

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> If I keep WAP1 & 2 in gateway mode, all computers can get to the
> internet without issues but they cannot talk to any printers on the
> network except for those on their own subnet.

Please provide the host configurations of the printers as well as the
URLs you use to access them.