Ironman273 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Our IT recently got changed and now I have to fix my own issues here in the office and I can't figure this out. We have a network set up on 172.29.196.x that's mainly for printers. Our company's wifi is set up on a completely different network. We have a new mobile app for printing that we need to use on that 172.29.196.x network so I thought we could set up a Wireless Access Point and have the mobile devices connect to it. We have a Linksys WRT300N for that now. So far I've connected the Linksys' WAN port to the network and nothing to the LAN ports. I set up the main configuration page like any machine that would connect to the network (we don't use DHCP) and assigned it an IP of 172.29.196.50 with the same subnet mask and gateway I would assign any other device. I left the router IP at 192.168.1.1. The mobile devices get an IP (192.168.1.100) and can browse the internet but I can't access any of the printers on the 172.29.196.x network. I know I'm missing something but I just don't know what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+PeterUK MVC Posted April 16, 2012 MVC Share Posted April 16, 2012 Your Linksys WRT300N being a router is isolating your network with you using the WAN port, your main configuration really needs DHCP for this to work as simple as possible by connecting your main network to the Linksys WRT300N LAN port with its DHCP disable with your main configuration giving out IP's by DHCP which your mobile devices will use. If you do the above without having your main configuration set for DHCP then you will have to set your mobile devices with a assigned IP subnet mask and gateway as you would assign any other device in your network. There are ways to have wireless with DHCP and your main configuration without DHCP but you might need more hardware so for a simple setup just enable DHCP for your main configuration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted April 17, 2012 Veteran Share Posted April 17, 2012 Why did u set it up like that? Take a large screw driver or any other blunt object and destroy the wan/Internet port. Put the router LAN interface on the same network as the 172.x.x.x and only use the LAN ports on it. If you don't want to destroy your router put a piece of electrical tape over the wan port and don't use it. This will solve your issue. What you are missing in your scenario is that a firewall/router has two interfaces. A unsecure and a secure. The wan port of any router is an unsecure network and the LAN side is a secure network. A printer needs two way communication, in a secure/unsecure mode you will not be able to pass traffic properly. Do not use the unsecured port for networks that are already secured and you wil be fine. Basically if you don't understand what I wrote, don't use the wan port. g0dzilla 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman273 Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 Thanks for your help, guys. I got it working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Why did u set it up like that? Take a large screw driver or any other blunt object and destroy the wan/Internet port. Best solution ever!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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