[ML-General] linux networking questions

[david]

Ok on the routers/bridges.

So what do I set each PC to?  route add 192.168.0.0/16?  Specify a 
gateway, too?



On 10/05/2015 10:40 PM, Hunter Fuller wrote:
>
> Sure, if you altered the subnet mask on your router to 255.255.0.0 (a 
> /16) that would work. Your random devices will still default to 
> 192.168.whatever.0/24, but once you alter their subnet mask as well 
> (or use DHCP) then everything should Just Work for you.
>
> On Oct 5, 2015 10:38 PM, "david" <ainut at knology.net 
> <mailto:ainut at knology.net>> wrote:
>
>     Appreciate the help, Hunter.  Is it not easy to have everything in
>     the 192.168.x.x address range?  (Mask 255.255.0.0?)  I can't
>     remember any of this but bits and pieces...
>
>     My router and firewall to the outside world are set not to pass
>     192.168.x.x out to the world (as such) but I'm using all bridges
>     internally (but there may still be one brouter in the mix; not sure.)
>
>     Thanks,
>     David
>
>
>
>     On 10/05/2015 10:32 PM, Hunter Fuller wrote:
>>
>>     The long and the short of it is subnet masking. Basically, in
>>     home networking, your subnet mask is almost always 255.255.255.0
>>     also known as a /24 (slash 24). What this means is that the first
>>     three octets of the IPs of two devices have to be the same before
>>     they can talk.
>>
>>     Routers are capable of breaking this boundary, but of course your
>>     router can only know about 192.168.1.0/24 <http://192.168.1.0/24>
>>     so that won't help you.
>>
>>     If the raspberry pi is handing out addresses in a different range
>>     then you need to put your laptop in that range temporarily, log
>>     into the pi, and reconfigure it to not do that. Unless you intend
>>     for it to create its own separate network that is.
>>
>>     On Oct 5, 2015 10:22 PM, "david" <ainut at knology.net
>>     <mailto:ainut at knology.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         Seems like lately I've forgotten everything I've ever known.
>>         <sigh>
>>
>>         I need to be able to access subnets at home; everything is
>>         behind a firewall to the Internet.
>>
>>         My PC's are all dhcp in the 192.168.1.x address space.
>>
>>         I'd like to be able to talk to other addresses from these PC's.
>>
>>         Specifically:
>>         192.168.7.2 -- Beaglebone Black default IP Address works just
>>         fine.
>>
>>         but
>>
>>         192.168.10.1 -- particular RPi 2 address from downloaded
>>         image does not.  Of course, that Pi is a wireless one, while
>>         if I turn off the wireless and connect a house cable, it gets
>>         assigned 192.168.1.56 (for example) and that works fine. 
>>         BUT, the wifi address is still not accessible unless I make
>>         the wifi laptop get on the RPi 2 as it's dhcp server and then
>>         the laptop gets assigned 192.168.10.x. <sigh> (Same for the
>>         Android tablet.)  How do I get everything to play nice with
>>         each other?
>>
>>         Bought a NAS server and set it's address to 192.168.200.1 --
>>         and *nothing* in the house could see it until I changed it's
>>         address to a 192.168.1.x.
>>
>>         Help, please.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         David Merchant
>>
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