{"id":411,"date":"2021-08-31T15:42:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/?page_id=411"},"modified":"2021-10-05T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:00:04","slug":"alternative-net-ex4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/alternative-net-ex4\/","title":{"rendered":"alternative-net-ex4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This example shows a Cable Modem WAN connection with a shared single ISP IP address.\u00a0 It contains wireless, Ethernet, and HomePNA clients and has two subnets.\u00a0 This configuration will let all clients access Internet services, but\u00a0<b>the Wireless clients will not be able to File and Printer share with either the Ethernet or HomePNA clients without some further work.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll at least need to set up an\u00a0<b>LMHOSTS<\/b>\u00a0file on each machine (<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/mmr_fileprint_share.htm#LMHOSTS\">go here<\/a><\/b>\u00a0for more info), and you might need to forward\u00a0<b>ports 138 and 139<\/b>\u00a0on the Access Point&#8217;s NAT router if they&#8217;re not forwarded by default.<\/p>\n<p>You can avoid having to mess with LMHOSTS and port forwarding if your Access Point&#8217;s NAT router can be disabled and switched to\u00a0<b>bridging<\/b>\u00a0mode.\u00a0 In bridging mode, the Access Point will act just like the Ethernet to HomePNA bridge and not create a separate subnet.\u00a0 All clients will be on the\u00a0<b>192.168.1.X<\/b>\u00a0subnet and be able to File and Printer share with the Ethernet and HomePNA clients.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/cm_homepna_example-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"523\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>NOTES:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1) The wireless clients are on a &#8220;private&#8221;, non-routable subnet, i.e.\u00a0<b>192.168.0.X<\/b>, that is created by the NAT router in the Access Point.<\/p>\n<p>2) The Ethernet and HomePNA clients are on a different &#8220;private&#8221;, non-routable subnet, i.e.\u00a0<b>192.168.1.X<\/b>, that is created by the router.<\/p>\n<p>3) The Cable modem to router connection may need to be made via crossover cable or normal UTP cable, depending on the modem&#8217;s LAN port configuration.\u00a0 See\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/port_expand.htm\">this page<\/a><\/b>\u00a0for more information on when to use a crossover cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This example shows a Cable Modem WAN connection with a shared single ISP IP address.\u00a0 It contains wireless, Ethernet, and HomePNA clients and has two subnets.\u00a0 This configuration will let all clients access Internet services, but\u00a0the Wireless clients will not be able to File and Printer share with either the Ethernet or HomePNA clients without some further work.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll at least need to set up an\u00a0LMHOSTS\u00a0file on each machine (go here\u00a0for more info), and you might need to forward\u00a0ports 138 and 139\u00a0on the Access Point&#8217;s NAT router if they&#8217;re not forwarded by default. You can avoid having to mess with <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicallynetworked.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}