Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

WLAN Extender on Subnet

10 views
Skip to first unread message

WG

unread,
Jan 19, 2021, 12:34:38 PM1/19/21
to
Greetings!

This is a home LAN with an OpenSuSE Linux gateway and a WLAN Router.
The Gateway has the fix IP 192.168.1.222 with NetMask 255.255.255.0.
The WLAN router has the fix address 192.168.1.240.
It had the default address 192.168.0.1 which I modified to fit the subnet.
All clients are connected viad dhcp.
Connection via cable or wireless works fine.

Now I want to add a WLAN Extender which has the fix IP 192.168.0.254.
The extenders ip addr is not changable.

My question:
What needs to be done to integrate the new subnet 192.168.0.n
with the subnet 192.168.1.n so that the clients traffic connected to the
extender is routed to the gateway 192.168.1.222?

Thanx for reading and hints.

David W. Hodgins

unread,
Jan 19, 2021, 12:44:44 PM1/19/21
to
Change the netmask to 255.255.0.0, so it's 192.168.0.0/16

Regards, Dave Hodgins

--
Change dwho...@nomail.afraid.org to davidw...@teksavvy.com for
email replies.

Jim Jackson

unread,
Jan 19, 2021, 1:34:26 PM1/19/21
to
On 2021-01-19, David W. Hodgins <dwho...@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:34:32 -0500, WG <w...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> This is a home LAN with an OpenSuSE Linux gateway and a WLAN Router.
>> The Gateway has the fix IP 192.168.1.222 with NetMask 255.255.255.0.
>> The WLAN router has the fix address 192.168.1.240.
>> It had the default address 192.168.0.1 which I modified to fit the subnet.
>> All clients are connected viad dhcp.
>> Connection via cable or wireless works fine.
>>
>> Now I want to add a WLAN Extender which has the fix IP 192.168.0.254.
>> The extenders ip addr is not changable.
>>
>> My question:
>> What needs to be done to integrate the new subnet 192.168.0.n
>> with the subnet 192.168.1.n so that the clients traffic connected to the
>> extender is routed to the gateway 192.168.1.222?

I don't think you need to do anything, for the actual wireless clients
it services. It's only for admin of the device. It is possible to add an
IP address in the 192.168.0.0/24 range on the device you are going to
use to admin the wireless device.

as root ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.0.1

or better use ip but I can't remember the invocation.

Jim Jackson

unread,
Jan 19, 2021, 1:35:43 PM1/19/21
to
I was going to add - if it can't be changed, it means you can't have more
than one on your network. A bit strange.

WG

unread,
Jan 20, 2021, 4:43:33 AM1/20/21
to
Thanks for your comments, all up and working :-)


0 new messages