jrizzle77 said:
oh ok well thast the problem then .. is the subnet. I misunderstood your previous post and thought i could just change the ip address of the routers to the 172.16.2.1 and 172.16.1.1 and use the 255.255.255.0 subnet mask. The linksys doesn't allow the subnet to be changed to 255.255.252.0, so does that mean basically won't be able to fully network all the computers?
hum; if the Linksys controls the subnet mask EVEN for ip addresses
172.16.x.x, then, sorry, we're dead in the water
You may wish to evaluate which system connect to what, as that would provide
connectivity but no file/print sharing (ie a form of security for wireless connections).
The other choice is to get another router (Netgear is more user friendly), but
sadly that means more expense.
ONE LAST TRY:
config the wired router 172.16.1.1, subnet mask 255.255.255.0 BUT
restrict the DHCP range to 172.16.1.1-- .1.10
on the other router, get it's MAC address and use iMAC filtering on router 1
to force 172.16.1.10 to be used for the second routers MAC
(this is almost a static assignment, but we still us DHCP).
connect router two to router one,
configure it to have an address of 172.16.1.20, subnet mask 255.255.255.0
AND limit its DHCP to the range 172.16.1.20-- 1.30
you will have ONE subnet 172.16.1.* with the same subnet and both routers
will see all traffic and the broadcasting on 172.16.1.255 ports 137,138