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Wireless and hardwired network bridging

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MDNeilson - 29 Nov 2005 19:49 GMT
I have a desktop that is connected to a router wirelessly (for internet) that
is also connected to an old laptop via LAN and a wired router (for extended
screen and file sharing). Whenever I enable the LAN connection I lose the
internet in IE and Firefox from the WLAN connetion (IM stays on
occationally). Both machines are on the same workgroup and no IP's conflict
on the network anywhere. I tried bridging the connections but when I do, I
loose the WLAN connection completely (the w-network won't connect) but the
LAN connection works fine. How can I make this set-up work?

--they are two seperate routers--
jwkh - 29 Nov 2005 23:06 GMT
See the "Multiple NICs in XP Pro" above.  I had the same issue...

jwkh

> I have a desktop that is connected to a router wirelessly (for internet) that
> is also connected to an old laptop via LAN and a wired router (for extended
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>
> --they are two seperate routers--
Steve Winograd [MVP] - 30 Nov 2005 08:10 GMT
>I have a desktop that is connected to a router wirelessly (for internet) that
>is also connected to an old laptop via LAN and a wired router (for extended
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
>--they are two seperate routers--

The problem is probably that the wired router is acting as a DHCP
server and assigning a default gateway to the desktop's wired
connection.  Since the default gateway is used to access the Internet,
the computer must only get a default gateway assignment from the
wireless router.

Connect to the wired router's built-in web server (usually at an
address like http://192.168.0.1 or http://192.168.0.2) and disable the
router's DHCP server.  You can then assign static IP addresses to the
wired connections on the desktop and laptop, but don't assign default
gateway addresses.
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