[AccessD] OT: Three routers, weird problems

Yep.  I am a sole proprietor working out of an office in my home.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 2/22/2012 11:54 AM, Helmut Kotsch wrote:
> I think SmallOfficeHomeOffice"
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]Im Auftrag von Tina Norris
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> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012 17:49
> An: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Betreff: Re: [AccessD] OT: Three routers, weird problems
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> Okay, I need to know what that abbreviation means.  What is SOHO?
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> 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.
>>