Two router network

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Tue Jul 28 20:56:28 UTC 2009


Victor Padro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Rashkae<ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
>> Keith Clark wrote:
>>> Here is my current network setup:
>>>
>>> Cable Modem>Dlink Router (192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0)>Belkin Router
>>> (192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0).
>>>
>>> Both routers are wired and wireless.
>>>
>>> I have two computers wired to the Belkin Router and two computers
>>> connected to the Dlink via wireless connection.
>>>
>>> I have a DMZ setup on the Belkin router pointing to one of the computers
>>> that I want to use as a file server (192.168.2.2). Â When I want to ssh
>>> into that computer from a computer on the Dlink router, I use the
>>> address 192.168.0.4 and it gets me there.
>>>
>>> My problem is that I cannot "see" the computers connected to the Belkin
>>> router with smb, even though I can connect to it via ssh.
>>>
>> While there are ways to establish smb communication, I first am
>> compelled to ask,, is there a reason to be doing something this
>> obfuscated? (that is, having a second router NAT to a NAT router)
>>
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> 
> I second Rashkae's question.
> Why don't you use the second router as a switch only? connecting a
> crossover cable from the D-link port 4 to the Belkin port 1 should do
> it.
> 

Most, if not all routers, are also switches, which means you don't even
need the cross over, any cable will do.  However, the DHCP server on the
 second router (the one that is not using a WAN port to the internet)
should be disabled.




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