Why don't you let the router do all the router work, such as Wifi, routing, DHCP, DNS, etc? I have my router RJ45'd to my Bell router, and let it do all that. The Bell router's wifi is rarely used, but is a backup. Connect all your boxes RJ45 to your router if you wish, then they can all play well together, no? Is this too simple a setup?
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 11:58, David Mason via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a setup where my modem was connected to my gateway Linux box which > did routing, DHCP, DNS, etc. and was also connected to a switch which was > connected to a WiFi router being used as an access point. This is too > brittle for my tastes, as other members of my family can’t resolve problems > with it. > > Something went wrong so I have temporarily reconfigured it so the WiFi > router is connected directly to the modem, but this doesn’t let the WiFi > clients connect to the Linux boxes or other hard-wired machines or let them > connect to the internet. (I could connect the other devices to the router, > but for WiFi propagation reasons, the WiFi router is far away from all the > other devices, so this is not ideal.) > > So I was thinking of getting a > https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1046_363&item_id=102961 > router > and connecting to that the Linux box (which would still do DHCP (possibly) > and DNS, the router configured back as an access point (or a POE access > point such as > https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1056_356&item_id=031082, > as well as the other wired devices. > > Thoughts? Thanks. > > ../Dave > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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