m1ldslide1
Platinum Member
So my brother wrote me an email today with the following scenario:
He and his boss just moved into another firm's office, and they have their own internet connection separate from what the firm is using. Sounds like it's DSL, and I'm sure they have a little router with a DSL interface and a few fast ethernet ports with DHCP. However, they are using the firm's printers, and have been given access to this firm's wireless network in order to do this. Right now, my brother is having to switch back and forth between his wired connection to the internet and his wireless NIC to access the other network. He wants to stop doing this and handle all of his needs with a single connection.
If this were all wired, then np, I'd set up a small cisco or similar router with a static route pointing to the subnet that the printers are on and put one of the interfaces in that subnet. However the whole wireless part is throwing me off: is there a product that will authenticate and route to the wireless network in one subnet and then provide another interface with a static IP to connect to whatever router they're using now so that their local traffic stays local, internet traffic heads towards ISP, and printer traffic heads across the waves? Any ideas or alternate solutions?
TIA
He and his boss just moved into another firm's office, and they have their own internet connection separate from what the firm is using. Sounds like it's DSL, and I'm sure they have a little router with a DSL interface and a few fast ethernet ports with DHCP. However, they are using the firm's printers, and have been given access to this firm's wireless network in order to do this. Right now, my brother is having to switch back and forth between his wired connection to the internet and his wireless NIC to access the other network. He wants to stop doing this and handle all of his needs with a single connection.
If this were all wired, then np, I'd set up a small cisco or similar router with a static route pointing to the subnet that the printers are on and put one of the interfaces in that subnet. However the whole wireless part is throwing me off: is there a product that will authenticate and route to the wireless network in one subnet and then provide another interface with a static IP to connect to whatever router they're using now so that their local traffic stays local, internet traffic heads towards ISP, and printer traffic heads across the waves? Any ideas or alternate solutions?
TIA
