The netgear SW either wants the 3500L to be a managed firewall or an unmanaged switch. An managed router doesn't appear to be an option. The dd-wrt should fix that.
For no reason in particular, other than playing around, I created two subnets 192.168.100.x and 200.x. That worked, but I haven't had much luck getting them to talk to each other.
With the standard software, if you want everything to talk, the easiest thing is to put everything on the same subnet. This is done most easily by using the router as a switch -- use a LAN port for uplink rather than the WAN port. At this point the router disappears. It has no IP address.
On another front I've been playing with wifi. Since I'm rural I can go ahead and hog the spectrum. I want to make different segments run on different channels. (Netgear seems to default on re-use.) That way I can be doing massive transfers on one wifi segment, and have lots of bandwidth available on other segment(s).
Diane was in the middle of on-line shopping while I was doing all this, and I managed to freeze up the WAP she was using. "Uh, here, let me see your computer for a second."
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For no reason in particular, other than playing around, I created two subnets 192.168.100.x and 200.x. That worked, but I haven't had much luck getting them to talk to each other.
With the standard software, if you want everything to talk, the easiest thing is to put everything on the same subnet. This is done most easily by using the router as a switch -- use a LAN port for uplink rather than the WAN port. At this point the router disappears. It has no IP address.
On another front I've been playing with wifi. Since I'm rural I can go ahead and hog the spectrum. I want to make different segments run on different channels. (Netgear seems to default on re-use.) That way I can be doing massive transfers on one wifi segment, and have lots of bandwidth available on other segment(s).
Diane was in the middle of on-line shopping while I was doing all this, and I managed to freeze up the WAP she was using. "Uh, here, let me see your computer for a second."
- mark 12-19-2010 10:43 pm