Thursday, October 21, 2010

How to get router in ';receiving'; mode?

I'd like to play LAN games with the neighbor. He has a wireless network (router) while mine is all wired (i have a wireless router but i use it with wires, faster and i don't have a wireless card in all my PC's...). As i have another spare router i was wondering if it could be set to ';receiving'; the neighbor's network wirelessly ??



If it's possible, could i then receive wiressly and then send to the wan of my other router to distribute it to the other pc's via my wired network?



Wow, i think i'm getting in over my head...

lollHow to get router in ';receiving'; mode?
Unfortunately, this is not easy to do. You can't just bridge the two networks together because they each have their own gateway and DHCP server.



If you can reprogram your wireless router with a Linux-based firmware like OpenWRT, you can configure the router as a node on both his network and yours that routes between them. However, for that alone to work, you'd have to do two things:



1) You'd each have to number your networks in different IP address space. If you're both numbered in 192.168.0.0/24, one of you would have to move to, say, 192.168.1.0/24.



2) Say your router is 192.168.0.250 in your network and 192.168.1.250 in his network. Each machine on his network that wants to reach machines on your network needs a route for 192.168.0.0/24 with a next hop of 192.168.0.250, and each machine on your network that wants to reach machines on his network needs a route for 192.168.1.0/24 with a next hop of 192.168.1.250. This route could be added manually on each machine, or could be avoided by adding such routes in the routers. (But most commodity routers that are managed through a web interface don't make it easy to add a manual route.)

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