On 01/08/2013 09:10, thescullster wrote:
Hi all

OK so this is maybe a bit OT for the group, but here goes.

I've never been a fan of wireless, so cabled the house up with Cat 5 to
a number of rooms. There are clearly now numerous devices that will only
connect wirelessly and I am under pressure to add a WAP.

I've inherited a Netgear DG834G wireless router, our existing network
uses the wired version of this device. I have set up the wireless router
as a WAP OK, but wondered if it is possible to configure it as a DHCP
server with a different address range to the wired router.

Not sure how much security this would add, but I'm inclined to do as
much as possible to separate the wireless network from certain wired
devices. The SSID of the WAP is hidden and MAC address filtering on that
router is in place.

Anyone setup a separate wired and wireless network?

TIA

Phil

If you want your wired and wireless devices to share the same internet
connection, they all really need to be in the same subnet. You could use
separate ranges within that if you were to allocate fixed addresses to
all the wired devices, and use DHCP to allocate a restricted
non-overlapping range of addresses for the wireless devices. If you then
used a software firewall (e.g. Zone Alarm) on each wired device, you
could define your 'home network' as just being the address range used by
the wired devices. They could then see each other, but the wireless
devices wouldn't be able to see them.
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Cheers,
Roger
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