How Can I Have Wired and Wireless on One Network?

[cohenfive]

i'm wondering whether you guys could help me out. we're getting our house wired today and will have 4 pc's hooked up via cat 5e and our linksys befsr81 router. i also have a linksys wrt54g wireless router that i'd like to use as part of the network. in other words, have the 4 pc's hooked by wire into the network but also have the wireless for our laptops (connected via one of the jacks that are being installed today). i'm not sure how to do this or whether i need different cables than the 5e patch cables that i have. when i tried connecting the wired router to the wireless via a patch cable it didn't work and i had to reboot everything. thanks in advance.

 

[wfay]

Plug regular cat5e wire from wired router LAN jack into wireless router WAN jack. No crossover required.

 

[Need4Speed]

for what its worth, i personally believe that wireless network should not be on the same network and subnet as a wired network. a wireless network should be physically separated from the wired network using a firewall that has dmz capability on a third interface. If wired network access is required from the wireless side, then a vpn should be used...but i'm anal about my network security, so that's just me.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: Need4Speed
for what its worth, i personally believe that wireless network should not be on the same network and subnet as a wired network. a wireless network should be physically separated from the wired network using a firewall that has dmz capability on a third interface. If wired network access is required from the wireless side, then a vpn should be used...but i'm anal about my network security, so that's just me.

Under certain situations it is a very good idea. Especially when you have risky people on your Wireless.

Link to: Network Segregation - Adding security to Wireless Network (or to any peer to peer Network).

However I would not advocate it as a mainstream use.

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[cohenfive]

appreciate the comments guys. i've chatted with linksys. it turns out that i need to reconfigure the wireless router so it doesn't conflict with the wired router (change the ip address of the wireless) and also disable dhcp server capabilites on the wireless. hopefully good to go at that point.

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: Using a Wireless Cable/DSL Router as a Switch with an Access Point

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