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Help with wireless routed network

Hi

I was hoping for some help setting up my home network...Here is the situation:

Internet cable broadband > Netgear vmdg280 Wireless router

The Wireless router works on the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet.

This works fine.

But, I have an HP server running a couple of VM's in the upstairs loft. The VM Host and the VM guests are on the 192.168.1.1/24 subnet. I have a dg834G Netgear Wireless router up there too.

I would like to be able to access both my VM's and the Internet from a laptop that is connected over WiFi.

I assume to be able to do this, I need to have some sort routing between the two Wireless routers. Does anyone know if this is possible and, if so, how I can do this?

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Well the first problem that you have is that 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.1.1/24 describe the same subnet, i.e 192.168.1.x.  You need to give your db834g a different subnet such as 192.168.2.0/24.

Not familiar with the netgear, but I would guess it is much like any consumer grade router.  Give your dg834G a static 192.168.1.x address on the "external" interface and have it route for 192.168.2.0/24 on the "internal" subnet.  Your VM addresses will be on the 192.168.2.x network.  Then on the same router find where you specify static routes and give it a default route pointing to the 192.168.1.x (probably .1) address of the vmdg280 router.

Now on vmdg280 create a static router for your 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 network and point it to the "external" 192.168.1.x address on your dg834G router.

That should do it.
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Hi JDavis,

Sorry, there was a typo in my original message.

The Wireless router works on 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, sorry.

The VM works on 192.168.1.0/24 as mentioned.

Do the instructions still apply?
Yes, same instructions.
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Hmmm, doesn't seem that straightforward on the Netgear, although I do understand what you're saying.

Any Netgear experts out here?
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I found a manual for the dg834G, but it appears the VMDG280 is a box made specifically for Virgin Media and it is supported by VM.  It doesn't appear that they made a manual available.  I did see one post where someone was doing what you are attempting to do, and it stated that he specified the internal router/network as a DMZ.

The DG834G manual can be found at the link below.  Static routes are described on page 7-10.

http://kbserver.netgear.com/pdf/dg834g_dg834gb_ref_manual_03Jun05.pdf

As to the post above, I did not read in your post that you were trying to do this over wireless.  The DG834G is connected to the VMDG280 with a cable, correct?
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Hi All

>"The DG834G is connected to the VMDG280 with a cable, correct?"

Nope, that's the thing. There is no wired connection between the two, I was hoping to do all this wirelessly?

Since this is not possible to do completely via wireless unless the specific router/bridge can be placed in wireless access point (or cables used), I think my comment 33942818 should be the "solution".