Possible to hook up 2 networks??

[aphex]

Anyone know if this is possible? If so, how..

this is setup weve got and what i wanna do, Basically i wanna connect our two small networks...


Comp1----\ /---- Comp 2
Comp2----> Router ---> Cable Modem (INTERNET) Cable Modem ----> Router <---- Comp 1
Comp3----/ \---- Comp 3

If it helps.... were both using linksys routers...

 

[HJB417]

I don't understand your diagram
computer 1 connects to computer 2
computer 2 connects to a routerA which then connects to a cable modem
the cable modem connects to a routers A and B
router B connects to computer 1
computer 3 connects to computer 3

it doesn't make sense but that's what it looks like to me. Anyways, if you want to connect 2 networks, you're gonna need a hardware/software NAT router but both networks must connect to that NAT router.

Please be more detailed though =)

 

[Russ]

aphexII,

Is there just one cable modem in the mix? If so, what's the point of having two physical segments?

If you have two cable modems in the mix, I'd imagine you could setup some kind of routing table in one of the Linksys units (using the IP address of the other unit as the gateway) to allow the two segments to communicate.

Russ, NCNE

 

[aphex]

sorry i tried to use spaces (if you saw what i originally wrote, youd understand)

 

[Beau]

Well you could do it with VPN. It gets spendy though. You'd have to have a router that supports at least 3 concurrent VPN sessions, plus have win2k domain servers on each end to authenticate the logins. Plus you'd have to have static IP's on both ends, unless you did something like DNS2Go to register your DHCP addy.

 

[Beau]

Don't know if you can set cable connections to do routing like that, can you Russ? Especially if the ISP is using any type of firewall where the two segments are on opposite site of them (generally in soho connections I think). VPN would probably be the best way to go.