[AccessD] OT: Three routers, weird problems

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Wed Feb 22 10:49:20 CST 2012


Okay, I need to know what that abbreviation means.  What is SOHO?
T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
231-322-2787


On 2/20/2012 12:41 PM, jwcolby wrote:
> I have a SOHO.  Yesterday the cable company came in to replace the 
> cable modem and replaced it with an integrated modem / router / 
> wireless.  I like it!  It has guest networks and so forth, very modern.
>
> I use 192.168.122.1 as that base router's IP and the range 10-100 as 
> the addresses dished out to computers, and I set all that up, turned 
> on encryption, set  the SSID to C2Db1, all the typical setup stuff.
>
> I have a pair of wrt54gs routers / wireless.  I have in the past put 
> them on the network as access points on either end of the house to 
> allow better wireless access around the house.   I know how to turn 
> off DHCP server in the access points, set the IP of the access point 
> router to a fixed address, for which I use 192.168.122.2 / .3 etc.  I 
> set the SSID to unique values C2Db2 and C2Db3 so I can identify each 
> one for connecting.  So I set up two of these "access points" using 
> two wrt54gs routers with the wan / DHCP turned off.  In point of fact, 
> now that I think of it, I do not know how to specifically "turn off" 
> the WAN, I just don't use it, connecting all cables to the switch side 
> of the device.
>
> So now comes the strange thing.
>
> I rebooted and my laptop's wired NIC says it is connecting to the 
> Local Area Connection C2Db3.  That should not be possible, since C2Db3 
> is not the DHCP server.  C2Db3 is one of the WRT54GS routers which is 
> now only a switch and wireless access point.  The laptop does not 
> connect to C2Db3 (directly)  though C2Db3 is plugged into the same 
> gigabit switch as the laptop (up in my office).
>
> The connection does work, and it gets out to the internet, it is just 
> confusing to me.  I expected that all of my computers with wired 
> connections to switches would show C2Db1 as the network, and any 
> wireless NECS would show the name of the wireless access point that 
> they came in under.
>
> Just as an aside, the "show network map" fails miserably and 
> immediately.  All of my switches are dumb (unmanaged) so I was really 
> only expecting perhaps a basic picture of the network, but nope, 
> nothing at all except an error message.
>
> Just as an aside, I have an 8 port gigabit in my office on the second 
> floor at one end of the house, connected to a 4 port gigabit switch in 
> the basement at the center of the house.  That 4 port is connected to 
> the new cable modem / router to get at the internet, and is also 
> connected to an 8 port gigabit switch at the other end of the house 
> (relative to my office).  I recently "wired the house" (myself) 
> putting boxes in the walls of many of the rooms and running physical 
> cables to the closest switches.  It would have been nice to just have 
> a 24 port switch and run cables all the way to that switch but that 
> was not to be.
>
> Anyhoo, I was wondering what the heck the C2Db3 actually means in 
> terms of what my laptop thinks it is doing / connecting to with it's 
> wired NIC.
>


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