Network setup advice needed

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JeremyNzl

359 posts

Ultimate Geek

#68821 28-Sep-2010 21:56

Hi Guys,

I'am very green on the networking side of things, However I need some advice.

I have a home network with an adsl router and 2 switches with down stream computers and printer running on 192.168.1.X ; 255.255.255.0

We have recently taken delivery of a electronic fruit sizer that came with 2 pc's 1 is dos based and is slaved to a windows xp pc
These new pcs have different ranges ie

Dos pc running on 192.168.0.12 ; 255.255.255.0
Xp master running on 192.168.50.1 ; 255.255.255.0
Running in there own workgroup called sizer

It is needed to connect the xp master to the internet for maintence via V.N.C. as the router is on 192.168.1.254 what solutions do I have.

at the moment I think I will have to adjust the 192.168.1.x range to fit the xp master range not impossible but means I have to reset router and all downstream static connections.
Any other suggestions to provide access to the internet on the xp master.

cheers

Jeremynzl

jaymz

1133 posts

Uber Geek

#385669 28-Sep-2010 22:19

From what I have read, you want the XP pc to access the internet and also the two other subnets?

If that is the case, simply multihome your XP PC's network connection so that it can talk to the other subnets.

webwat

2036 posts

Uber Geek

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#385813 29-Sep-2010 12:26

means your router would need to setup another network group so that it has another IP address and can talk to the other subnet. Nobody knows what "slaved" means, but I presume it is networked directly to the XP machine with a crossover cable instead of through the network? Or perhaps its running as a terminal client and so needs network connection. For now I suggest you to use 192.168.1.X IP addresses for anything that needs internet. Alternatively you could put a NAT router between the subnets or put an extra LAN card in one of the PCs but bridging the networks on windows might get messy for you.

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raytaylor

4017 posts

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#386962 1-Oct-2010 22:50

If you have the dos pc running on 192.168.0.x subnet and the xp on 192.168.50.x
This wouldnt work using tcpip with masks of 255.255.255.0

Are you sure the masks are not 255.255.0.0 ?

They might be using some other protocol like NETBEUI or netbios?

Go into the local area connection properties on the XP machine
Pull up the TCPIP properties
You should see the static details of
IP 192.168.50.1
SUBNET 255.255.255.0 ?
Gateway and DNS can be manually blank

Put in only a DNS address of your router
Click Advanced
Add a second ip address - assign an unused one in your routers subnet
Add a gateway - make it your routers address

OK, OK, OK

See how that works

Alternativley, see if you can add another network card into the xp pc (they are $20) and just plug that into your network and use a crossover cable between the dos and xp pc

Ray Taylor

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