wireless networking problem

[Mikkel]

On 08/09/2010 06:28 PM, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> I'm at my wits end trying to solve what I keep thinking is a simple
> problem.
> 
> My old DSL modem doesn't have a wireless interface. It's connected to a
> router (the LAN gateway) which then has ethernet connections to my
> boxes. All of these computers use static IP addresses. The DSL modem is
> assigned a dynamic IP address by my ISP. 
> 
> I recently added a DIR-615 D-Link wireless router which connects to the
> gateway router. I also have a netbook which I first configured with a
> static IP address and the IP address of the gateway router. This worked
> fine -- but, of course, I mostly use the netbook away from home, so I
> reconfigured it to accept a dynamic IP address from whatever Starbucks
> wireless network I'm connected to. 
> 
> So now the netbook works fine, as long as I'm NOT connected to my own
> LAN. When I'm at home connected to my LAN on the netbook I can get to
> all the local computers fine -- but I can't reach the Internet.
> 
> The wireless router has an Internet --> WAN page in its setup that
> includes a choice of Internet Connection Types: (1) Dynamic IP (DHCP),
> which I can't use since the DSL modem has already taken the one IP
> address assigned by my ISP;
> (2) Static IP; (3) PPPoE; (4) PPTP; and (5) L2TP 
> 
> Will any of these work? I'd appreciate some advice before I rush in and
> start changing things without knowing what I'm doing...
> 
Normally, the router does NAT, so you can use DHCP on the LAN side,
regardless of what the WAN side uses. The D-link acts as a DHCP server.

Mikkel
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