Howto Add DHCP WiFi Router and subnet to existing network
I have an existing home network with old reliable sonicwall tele3 with 4 VPNs configured. I have a Linksys WAP54G providing wifi access. The tele3 is basically a 5-IP license... and I've managed to stay at 5 connections for some time... since it only counts the IP's that route outbound thru the firewall. DHCP with short licenses has been flexible enough... but no more. With all the wifi devices in the house (Wii, DSI, laptops, etc) I need to figure out a better configuration.
What I'd like to do is replace my WAP with a wireless router... and give it a static IP on the wan side (dedicating 1 of my 5 IP's for all wifi devices) and then configure DHCP on the WAR for all my devices. It would be great if the WiFi network could still access the printers on my wired network but I'm a little foggy on that part.
I would replace my tele3 - but it just seems like there are no modern equivalents that do what it does without spending an arm and a leg. I depend on the point-to-point VPN tunnels I have but only 1 computer needs access to those remote networks.
For wireless... I'm currently using B/G. wireless devices include my wife's laptop, kids two dsi and wii, etc)
On the wired side... 3 computers, 2 network printers.
My LAN network settings are:
10.51.90.1
255.255.255.224
I think my questions boil down to:
Product suggestion for a wireless router that will NAT and DHCP. Looking for a solid B/G performer.
Subnet suggestions for the wifi network
Caveats to having the wifi network NAT thru my wired network (and NAT again thru my Sonicwall TELE3) to the outside world thru my Time Warner Broadband.
Thanks in advance
Shawn
What I'd like to do is replace my WAP with a wireless router... and give it a static IP on the wan side (dedicating 1 of my 5 IP's for all wifi devices) and then configure DHCP on the WAR for all my devices. It would be great if the WiFi network could still access the printers on my wired network but I'm a little foggy on that part.
I would replace my tele3 - but it just seems like there are no modern equivalents that do what it does without spending an arm and a leg. I depend on the point-to-point VPN tunnels I have but only 1 computer needs access to those remote networks.
For wireless... I'm currently using B/G. wireless devices include my wife's laptop, kids two dsi and wii, etc)
On the wired side... 3 computers, 2 network printers.
My LAN network settings are:
10.51.90.1
255.255.255.224
I think my questions boil down to:
Product suggestion for a wireless router that will NAT and DHCP. Looking for a solid B/G performer.
Subnet suggestions for the wifi network
Caveats to having the wifi network NAT thru my wired network (and NAT again thru my Sonicwall TELE3) to the outside world thru my Time Warner Broadband.
Thanks in advance
Shawn
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Let's try this again. I purchased a Lynksys WRT54GL router for testing. So far... I can't seem to get what I want.
Let me recap. I have a sonicwall firewall TELE3 that has a license for 5 IPs. The main reason I need the SW is because it has my point-to-point VPN tunnels - and that's critical.
Over time... I've added a number of hosts... so the 5 IP limit has been a struggle. The SW only seems to care about IPs that route out the WAN port... so things like network printers don't take up a license.
I have 2 wired hosts and 1 wifi laptop that are the primary devices... but I also have a handful of devices that use wifi and dhcp (like Wii, DSi, etc) - and often run out of IPs.
What I want to do is have the WRT54GL act as a router for my wifi devices. Basically... I want to assign the WRT an IP and have it serve up DHCP addresses to all my wifi devices. I'm thinking that it will then NAT all the wifi devices.
The problem is... this doesn't seem to work... exactly.
When I get a host configured on the WRT... and get an IP... I can see the VPN networks... but I can't seem to route beyond. I can also see my network printer.
The networks are:
SonicWall: 10.1.1.1 / 255.255.255.0
WRT: 10.1.1.3 / 255.255.255.0 GW: 10.1.1.1
PC Host on WRT: 192.168.1.100
can access network printer : 10.1.1.2
It would seem like this is possible... since ISPs due pretty much the same thing... carving up addresses for multiple users... and those users can have multiple hosts NAT'ing thru their one IP. However... I know I must be oversimplifying something somewhere.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Let me recap. I have a sonicwall firewall TELE3 that has a license for 5 IPs. The main reason I need the SW is because it has my point-to-point VPN tunnels - and that's critical.
Over time... I've added a number of hosts... so the 5 IP limit has been a struggle. The SW only seems to care about IPs that route out the WAN port... so things like network printers don't take up a license.
I have 2 wired hosts and 1 wifi laptop that are the primary devices... but I also have a handful of devices that use wifi and dhcp (like Wii, DSi, etc) - and often run out of IPs.
What I want to do is have the WRT54GL act as a router for my wifi devices. Basically... I want to assign the WRT an IP and have it serve up DHCP addresses to all my wifi devices. I'm thinking that it will then NAT all the wifi devices.
The problem is... this doesn't seem to work... exactly.
When I get a host configured on the WRT... and get an IP... I can see the VPN networks... but I can't seem to route beyond. I can also see my network printer.
The networks are:
SonicWall: 10.1.1.1 / 255.255.255.0
WRT: 10.1.1.3 / 255.255.255.0 GW: 10.1.1.1
PC Host on WRT: 192.168.1.100
can access network printer : 10.1.1.2
It would seem like this is possible... since ISPs due pretty much the same thing... carving up addresses for multiple users... and those users can have multiple hosts NAT'ing thru their one IP. However... I know I must be oversimplifying something somewhere.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
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The real problem I think I'll have is that the wifi subnet will be private IP's and the wired subnet will be private IP's - and I don't think the wifi router will be able to "see" the other private network. Maybe no wifi router can accomplish this... unless I use a firmware option like DD-WRT or Tomato
I'm not opposed to getting hardware to do this... I think the Linksys WRT54GL is pretty popular for wifi modders... but I don't want to spend $$ unless I know it will work.
I suppose an alternative is to look for an unsecure network in the neighborhood... and just set the Nintendo's to use that. "thanks neighbor!"