minor networking question

[rasczak]

I have a small test domain setup but I feel I screwed up the installation.

here is my network as it stands

cable modem > router1 (192.168.5.1) > router2 (192.168.5.30) > connected to a 5 port airnet switch.

router1 linksys wrt54g > 1 gaming box and one wireless laptop

router2 Dlink DI 624 (wireless turned off)> 1 gaming box and one wired laptop (my ubuntu laptop)

the school project
airnet switch > DC1 (192.168.1.1) primary DC running DNS and DHCP
airnet switch > File server (192.168.1.5) thinking of upgrading to a secondary DC
airnet switch > workstation (192.168.1.10)

what i am trying to do is gain access to the internet with the workstation and I realize that being on a different Subnet is causing me the problems.

Will installing routing and remote access on the primary DC solve the issue? i thought that creating a static ip for the workstation and setting the default gateway to 192.168.5.1 would give me the internet access I need but that obviously did not work.

I know it's a mess, but everything is running fine except the internet access to the workstation in the domain.

thanks

 

[Fardringle]

Is the 192.168.5.30 address on Router2 the address on its WAN port attached to router 1, or do you have that set as the internal address for the LAN clients (server, workstation, etc)?


It looks to me like the physical hardware configuration is fine, although I'm not sure why you would need to use the Airnet switch instead of just enabling wireless on Router 2. I suspect the problem is with the TCP/IP configuration on the network. Using the IP address ranges you gave, you should have things set up like this (Subnet Mask is 255.255.255.0 on all devices):

Router 1 (Linksys):
LAN IP address 192.168.5.1
WAN IP address (provided by the ISP)
Default Gateway (provided by the ISP)
DNS servers (provided by the ISP)

Router 2 (Dlink):
LAN IP address 192.168.1.1
WAN IP address 192.168.5.30
Default Gateway 192.168.5.1
DNS servers (Can use either 192.168.5.1 or addresses provided by the ISP)

Domain Controller:
IP address 192.168.1.2
Default Gateway 192.168.5.1 (Dlink router)
DNS server 192.168.1.1 (can use ISP addresses as secondary)

File Server:
IP address 192.168.1.5
Default Gateway 192.168.5.1 (Dlink router)
DNS server 192.168.1.2 (can use ISP addresses as secondary)

Workstation:
IP address 192.168.1.10
Default Gateway 192.168.5.1 (Dlink router)
DNS server 192.168.1.2 (can use ISP addresses as secondary)



The DNS server settings for the File server and workstation assume that your domain controller is Server 2000 or Server 2003. To function properly on a 2000/2003 domain, the primary DNS server on computers on the network should either be the domain controller or a separate dedicated internal DNS server. Since you said that you already have the Domain Controller running DNS and DHCP, you should definitely use it as the primary DNS for the other computers on the domain. Also, since the domain controller is running DHCP, as long as the gateway is set properly on the domain controller to be the LAN IP address of the Dlink, you should be able to manually set the IP configuration I listed above for the workstation, or just set it to use DHCP and have it work either way. Make sure that DHCP server is disabled on the DLink router or it will conflict with the DHCP server on the domain controller.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Router 1 (Linksys):
LAN IP address 192.168.5.1
WAN IP address (provided by the ISP)
Default Gateway (provided by the ISP)
DNS servers (provided by the ISP)

:thumbsup:

 

[rasczak]

ok, so I configured router2 wrong then?

I'll work on it. Thx