Simple networking problem.

[Tarrant64]

I am probably thinking way too much into this, but here is what I am trying to figure out:

I have quite a few PC's where I live, and my room mate and I use two different cable modems(for 2 different IP's). I have a file server and another media server on my side of the network. I wanted him to be able to access that through the LAN but he's not on the router.

Ex:
Cable modem #1 -> D-Link router
My desktop, 2 or more PC's sharing data, etc.

Cable modem #2
Direct connection to his PC.

Originally I thought just use the one router and assign him a the static IP from our ISP, and allow the rest of the PC's to use the other one. Never got it to work so we are using 2 different cable modems.

I thought about using a 2nd router, using #2 to go to that router, still giving him a separate IP and linking the two routers together(do I need crossover to uplink?) so he has access to the LAN. Will this work?

Any suggestions?

TIA!

 

[nweaver]

this is not a simple networkign problem...

when you are dealing with joining 2 networks together, it's a bit more complex. Easiast way to do this is as follows

Setup Cable Modem and Router 1, serving DHCP, using 192.168.0.0 as the subnet (255.255.255.0 as mask), router as 192.168.0.1
Setup Cable Modem and Router 2 with DHCP turned off, router as 192.168.0.254

setup clients that should use Cablemodem 1 as DHCP, and clients that should use cablemodem 2 as static. Cablemodem 1's default gateway si 192.168.0.1, any clients that should use cablemodem2 should have a default gateway of 192.168.0.254

 

[Tarrant64]

Looks like that should work. I'll give that a shot later this afternoon, thanks!