BCage wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. You did answer some of my questions.
>
> Some more specific questions are how do you deal with the multiple
> DHCP servers? I played around with a couple of wireless routers that
> I had and I could use one as a switch and the second as a wireless
> router/access point hanging off the first. When I did this, I ran
> into problems with machines from each of the two networks being able
> to see the machines on the other. This impacted file and print
> sharing. I thought this was related to the firewall configurations,
> but I was not able to figure it out. I feel sure this was user error
> or lack of knowledge, but it made me think that the problem was that
> first router was assigning IP addresses from a different segment than
> the second and, due to the hardware configuration, there was a
> firewall between the two. The second router in essence thinks the
> first router is in the wild; so to speak, so it is restricting access.
>

Had that problem when I was using multiple wap/routers.. Ended up with the
second having dhcp turned off, and plugging it into a lan port... When I
assigned the second starting ip address, i left the first three octets alone
(so it was on the same segment) and just changed the last number..