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To: Bloo Ice
To help clarify the fuzziness about “IP Routing Tables” let me tell you what a router does when it receives an “IP Packet” that is “Address” to it, then I’ll answer your questions.
So here we gooo!!!!
When either of your Linksys Routers intercepts an “IP Packet” that is “Addressed” to it, (that is address to either their WAN Ports or LAN Ports---the Default Gateway in Windows is the IP of the Router), it will remove the “Frame” (Layer 2 of OSI Model) and it will then take the “IP Packet” and buffer it into RAM. It will then look at the “Destination IP Address” to see IF it has an “Route” to that “Network” if it does, it will reframe it with the MAC Address of the one the Router WAN/LAN Interfaces that the Routing Table told it to do, IF a MACH to the destination address is NOT IN the Routing Table, there is always Route if all else fails, that is the “Default Route.” Then the ip packet will then take that route and you will have to cross your fingers in hope the ip packet get there!!! That’s all there is to it! Minus all the other techno jobo that really go into routing!!!!
Now when you set the “WAN and LAN Ports” on your linksys routers, you build the default setting in the linksys router “Routing Table.” To see what I mean go to the configuration page and “Setup>Advanced Routing look on that page for a button that says “Show Routing Table,” you should see the default route and the IP’s of the WAN\LAN Ports. So if you look a the First Routers Routing Table, you should see a fourth entry in the routing table to route to your second router Network Segment. ROUTING TABLE ENTRIES ARE VERY VERY INFORTANT!!! If there is no entry for the detonation your ip packet is destine for, the ip packet will NEVER EVERY GET THERE!
I forgot to tell you last time to disable the “NAT” on the Second Router and in the Static Route that you made on the First Router set the “Default Gateway” to the “WAN Port IP” of the Second Router which is: 192.168.247.3. There is much more to all of this but it will take to long to talk about it. So I’ll make up a Network Configuration for you!!!
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FIRST ROUTERS IP’S-
Internet Connection Type\WAN Port: assigned by ISP, should be set at: Obtain IP Address Automatically.
Network Setup\LAN Port: 192.168.247.1---Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Now go to the “Status” page to see a summery of the setting you just configured. Make sure they match here.
ROUTING TABLE ENTRY-
Go to “Advance Routing” page and look for the “Static Routing” configuration.
For the setting put:
Make sure “Select Set Number” is on “1.”
Destination LAN IP: 192.168.248.0---Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0---Default Gateway: 192.168.247.2---Interface: LAN & Wireless (it will send the IP Packet out on the LAN\Wireless Port Interface NOT the WAN Port---this is where you configure which interface MAC Address to reframe the IP Packet with!---each interface has a different MAC Address)
Make sure that the “Destination LAN IP” Address is set to: 192.168.248.0 and NOT TO: 192.168.248.1, you want to ROUTE TO the Network: 192.168.248.0 and NOT TO a Specific Machine on THAT Network. If you do ALL IP Packet “Destine” for the Network: 192.168.248.0 will go to that Specific Machine and NOT TO the Network. If I understand you right, that how you have it configured and it is WRONG!!!
Go to the “Show Routing Table” button to see if the entry you just made is in there!!!
NOTE:
Remember that the Switch Device is one of the Linksys 3-in-1 devices. The “Switch” is a 4-port switch BUT there is a TWIST, that is a “Invisible” Fifth Port that is “Hard Wired” to the “Input” of the Router’s Internal LAN Port. Just thought I would demystify the relationship with the “Routers LAN Port and the Switch!!! Because you can’t see the routers lan port interface (physically)”
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SECOND ROUTERS IP’S-
WAN Connection Type\WAN Port: 192.168.247.2---Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0---Gateway: 192.168.247.1
LAN IP Address\LAN Port: 192.168.248.1---Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Go to the “Dynamic Routing” page and look for a “Working Mode” choose “Router”(this turns off the “NAT” part)
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NETWORK DEVICES IP’S-
Computers: 192.168.248.2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9---Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0---Gateway: 192.168.248.1---DNS
you will have to go to the first router and look on the “Status” page to see WHAT “DNS Servers” your ISP gave you, so that you will be able to connect to the “Internet” just put that info. here!!!)
Xbox: 192.168.248.10---Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0---Gateway: 192.168.248.1---DNS
same as above)
Tivo: 192.168.248.11---Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0---Gateway: 192.168.248.1---DNS(same as above)
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OTHER INFORMATION!!!
These are ALL “Class C” IP Addresses!!
PING the configuration to make sure you have a connection! Also PING the Internet like
www.google.com, this will make sure that you can connect to the internet and that the TCP/IP setting are correct!
Windows Media Player plays a “Live Data Stem” from the MSN Radio Web Server, it only buffers the data, and it is gone after it is played!
Make sure you plug the one end of the Ethernet Cable to the WAN Port of the Second Router and the other end to the Switch Part of the First Router!!!
WARRING !
MAKE SURE THAT YOU CHANGE THESE IPADDRESS AFTER YOU TRIED THEM AN IT WORKS! BECAUSE IF YOU DON’T, ANYONE YOU READS THIS WILL KNOW YOUR IP ADDRESS AND WILL FIND A WAY TO HACK YOU!!! EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE “NAT” CONFIGURED ON THE FIRST ROUTER, THERE ARE WAY AROUND IT!!!