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From: none@none.invalid
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 05:49:53 -0700 (PDT), Big Daddy
wrote:
>Hi, I am living in Kenya at a school. My house is on the school's LAN,
>and all the IP addresses are 192.168.0.X. I have an older D-Link
>DI-524 wireless router to supply wireless access to my house. The
>router is set up as a DHCP server, and it can only be configured to
>give IP addresses in the same range as the schools internal network:
>192.168.0.X. So my laptop gets an address like 192.168.0.10 on my home
>network. The problem is when I try to ping another computer on the
>school network, it can't find it. So if I don't use the wireless
>router, I can put my laptop on the network and ping 192.168.0.240
>successfully, which is a computer in the server room. But if my laptop
>is on the subnet created by my home router, I can't ping
>192.168.0.240. I think this is because the router is looking for the
>IP address on my little home network subnet. When I do ipconfig, it
>shows me that my subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. Are there any ways for
>me to get around this? Maybe I can configure the router that for IP
>addresses like 192.168.0.240, it should pass them through to the rest
>of the network?
Remove the network cable from the D-Link's WAN port and plug it into
one of the D-Link's LAN ports. That will "flatten" the network,
turning your router into an Access Point. Ideally, you'll also want to
turn off its DHCP function since it could issue an IP already in use
and cause a collision. If you can't afford to turn off DHCP,
(presumably because the school LAN only hands you a single IP
address), then change the network settings in the D-Link to something
other than 192.168.0.x. For example, use 192.168.1.x with a netmask of
255.255.255.0.
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