Toshi Esumi wrote:
Is there any particular reason you want to have two subnets on your LAN, behind the Linksys router? As you showed us, you have: 192.168.1.x/24 (from DHCP) 192.168.100.x/24 (static)
Quite honestly, I don't know. Having two subnets just sort of happened when I was trying to switch from Samba to NFS. After some troubleshooting and advice from this list, NFS started working. NFS was able to use the static addresses and I was still able to access the Internet. The current problem occurred when I installed 10.0 (boxed set) on my laptop. I just want NFS and Internet access to work. If you see a way to get me there, I'll work with you as long as you're interested.
So far in your email, I don't see any reason you just use DHCP subnet:192.168.1.x for all your PCs.
Question. It appears that the router is also a DHCP server. That means that I do not need to activate DHCP on any of my machines. Right? I've set the router to start IP addresses at 192.168.1.2 and to issue a maximum of 50. Now if I configure all my network cards to use DHCP, NFS should work on all machines and all machines should be able to access the Internet. Right? And that's the way You can let all
PC talk each other and let them access to the Internet at the same time. If you still want to use static IP instead of DHCP, you can assign ones outside of DHCP range on the Linksys, but still within the 192.168.1.x/24 subnet, as I wrote in my last email.
Given my objectives, is there any reason to have a subnet with static IPs?
In your original email, you wrote.... "..., at the same time, use DHCP provided by my ISP to go outside my local network to the Internet."
The DHCP range from your ISP is different/separated from the Linksys's DHCP range. If you can get in the Linksys, you should be able to see the public IP address
Okay. I see that. (in my Cable internet case, it's 24.x.y.z; I don't
want to reveal my public IP to the world) DHCPed by your cable company. My case, I have a PIX FW as a router, like your Linksys, that keeps the 24.x.y.z and provide NAT(Network Address Translation) to bridge the Internet and my LAN 198.162.254.x/24. All my PCs are in this subnet. And SuSEx.xs and WinXP can talk each other at the same time all are connected to the Internet.
If you know about this very well and have some reasons to have two subnets, please forgive me and ignore my comments above and just let us know about it.
Thus far, your comments have been the most help. Please bear with me.
Toshi
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